WERTHEIMER
Fredric

• 1. Awards and honors

Fredric Michael Wertheimer is an American attorney, lobbyist, and activist notable for his work on campaign finance reform and other government integrity, transparency, and accountability issues.

Awards and honors

Wertheimer is the author of "Campaign Finance Reform: The Unfinished Agenda," published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political Science and Social Science and of "TV Ad Wars: How to Reduce the Costs of Television Advertising in our Political Campaigns," published in the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. He is the coauthor of "Campaign Finance Reform: A Key to Restoring the Health of Our Democracy," published in The Columbia Law Review.

Wertheimer has received honorary degrees from Colby College, Grinnell College and the Claremont Graduate University. He is a recipient of the COGEL Award for outstanding service in the cause of open and democratic government, given by the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws, an organization of state and federal ethics enforcement officials.

The New York Times has called Wertheimer the "dean of campaign finance reformers," and the Boston Globe has called Wertheimer a "legendary open-government activist.

NPR Supreme Court Reporter Nina Totenberg said, "Fred Wertheimer has helped write every campaign finance reform law since 1974."

In 2017, National Public Radio called Democracy 21 one of the most active groups investigating the Trump Administration's transparency and ethics and called Wertheimer "one of the progressive movement's leading strategists on ethics and campaign finance laws since the 1980s."