Liberty Medal

The Liberty Medal is an annual award administered by the National Constitution Center (NCC) of the United States to recognize leadership in the pursuit of freedom. It was founded by the Philadelphia Foundation. In 2006 an agreement was made with the National Constitution Center (NCC) that the NCC would take over the organizing, selecting and presenting of the award to recipients. Recipients are now chosen by the NCC and its board of trustees.^[1]

Liberty Medal
Philadelphia Liberty Medal
Location	Philadelphia
Country	United States
Presented by	National Constitution Center (NCC)
First award	1989
Website	http://www.constitutioncenter.org/libertymedal
Ribbon of the medal

Bill Clinton and Steven Spielberg at the 2009 ceremony

List of recipients

Year	Country	Name
2024	United States	Ken Burns[2]
2023	United States	Judy Woodruff and David Rubenstein
2022	Ukraine	Volodymyr Zelenskyy[3]
2021	Hong Kong	Jimmy Lai[4]
	Saudi Arabia	Loujain al-Hathloul
2020	United States	Ruth Bader Ginsburg[5]
2019	United States	Anthony Kennedy[6]
2018	United States	George W. Bush and Laura Bush[7]
2017	United States	John McCain[8]
2016	United States	John Lewis
2015	Tibet	14th Dalai Lama
2014	Pakistan	Malala Yousafzai[9]
2013	United States	Hillary Clinton
2012	United States	Muhammad Ali[10]
2011	United States	Robert Gates
2010	United Kingdom	Tony Blair
2009	United States	Steven Spielberg
2008	Russia	Mikhail Gorbachev[citation needed]
2007	Ireland	Bono
	United Kingdom	DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa)
2006	United States	George H. W. Bush
	United States	Bill Clinton
2005	Ukraine	Viktor Yushchenko
2004	Afghanistan	Hamid Karzai[11][12]
2003	United States	Sandra Day O'Connor
2002	United States	Colin Powell
2001	Ghana	Kofi Annan
2000	United States	Dr. James D. Watson
	United Kingdom	Dr. Francis Crick
1999	South Korea	Kim Dae-jung
1998	United States	George J. Mitchell
1997	United States	CNN International
1996	Jordan	King Hussein
	Israel	Shimon Peres
1995	Japan	Sadako Ogata
1994	Czech Republic	Václav Havel
1993	South Africa	Nelson Mandela
		Frederik Willem de Klerk
1992	United States	Thurgood Marshall
1991	Costa Rica	Óscar Arias Sánchez
	Switzerland	Médecins Sans Frontières
1990	United States	Jimmy Carter
1989	Poland	Lech Wałęsa

See also

• Philadelphia portal

• Independence National Historical Park