Philadelphia Liberty Medal

Bill Clinton and Steven Spielberg at the 2009 ceremony

The Liberty Medal is an annual award administered by the National Constitution Center of the United States to recognize leadership in the pursuit of freedom. It was originally 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]

List of recipients

Year	Name
2015	14th Dalai Lama
2014	Malala Yousafzai ^[2]
2013	Hillary Clinton
2012	Muhammad Ali^[3]
2011	Robert Gates
2010	Tony Blair
2009	Steven Spielberg
2008	Mikhail Gorbachev^[4]
2007	Bono DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa)
2006	George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton
2005	Viktor Yushchenko
2004	Hamid Karzai ^[5]^[6]
2003	Sandra Day O'Connor
2002	Colin Powell
2001	Kofi Annan
2000	Dr. James D. Watson Dr. Francis Crick
1999	Kim Dae Jung
1998	George J. Mitchell
1997	CNN International
1996	King Hussein Shimon Peres
1995	Sadako Ogata
1994	Václav Havel
1993	Nelson Mandela Frederik Willem de Klerk
1992	Thurgood Marshall
1991	Óscar Arias Sánchez Médecins Sans Frontières
1990	Jimmy Carter
1989	Lech Wałęsa