Lifetime Achievement Award Program

This is an award recognizing a Wisconsin Municipal Clerk. Membership in WMCA exceeds 1,400, with many of those members having served their communities in an exemplary manner. You may be one of those or know someone who is. Have you thought recognition for significant contributions to our profession at the local, state and national levels was in order? The WMCA Board of Directors thought so several years ago and created the Lifetime Achievement Award. It aims to give credit and honor where they are due.

The WMCA Lifetime Achievement Award is the recognition by one’s peers for a job well done, not just this year or last, but over a period of time. As we well know, the municipal clerk most often serves longer than any member of a governing body, thereby accumulating a record of civic contribution likely beyond that of the governing body. The clerk may be thought of as the silent public servant, but those in-the-know can testify to the scope of that service and its effectiveness.

Among the membership of our professional organization are qualified men and women whose receipt of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual conference in August would continue to validate the award.