LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association just completed it’s 117th
Annual Meeting. The
K.C.M.B.A. is one of the oldest bar
associations west of the Mississippi. It
has been the recipient of many national honors including the ABA Award of Merit,
Outstanding Overall Excellence, 1977 and President Ronald Reagan’s Citation
for the Homeless Outreach Program, 1987. The
K.C. Bar Foundation received the 1999 Difference Maker Award for the Summer Law
Internship Program, underwritten by The Lantz Welch Charitable Foundation.
It occasionally bestows the Lifetime Achievement Award to an individual for a
lifetime of outstanding service resulting in the growth and development of the
law, improvement in the administration of justice and increased recognition of
the contributions of the legal profession to the welfare of society.
There have been 27 recipients of this association’s most prestigious award
(attached is a list of some of the recipients).
The award was given this year to Lantz Welch of Kansas City, MO. . . .
“in recognition of his outstanding and dedicated service to The Kansas
City Metropolitan Bar Association and K.C. Bar Foundation.
He has held the post of President for the Association and the Foundation
and has responded continually to the need
of the law profession and the community. His
donations to the establishment of the Bar Center have enabled the Association to
provide unlimited education services to the legal community and helped make the
KCMBA a leader in this arena. Since
1993, The Lantz Welch Charitable Foundation has underwritten the entire Summer
Law Internship Program. This
program has provided internship positions in private practice and government to
inner city youths interested in the legal profession and enabled the legal
community to have a direct impact on their lives.
We honor him as an individual that continually strives to promote public
confidence in the profession of law.”
SOME OF THE PAST RECIPIENTS
1960 Dr.
Frederick D. Lewis, Dean of UKC Law School
1961 Justice Charles E.
Whittaker, Supreme Court of U.S.
1967 Dean Patrick Kelly, Dean
of UMKC Law School
1971 Judge Elmo B. Hunter, U.S.
District Court
1980 Judge Floyd R. Gibson,
U.S. District Court
1991 Judge Scott O. Wright,
U.S. District Court
1992 George Brett
(special award)
1994 Justice Harry A. Blackmun,
Supreme Court of U.S.
1996 Justice Clarence Thomas,
Supreme Court of U.S.
1997 R. Lawrence Ward, Past
President KCMBA
1998 Senator Nancy Kassebaum
1999 Senator Thomas Eagleton
2001 Lantz Welch, Past
President KCMBA