The Frances K. Hutchinson Medal is awarded to figures of national importance for distinguished service to conservation.

The Francis K. Hutchinson Medal was designed in 1940 by Spaulding Gorham, Chicago, and was presented and endowed by the Lake Geneva Garden Club in memory of its founder, Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson. Mrs. Hutchinson was an outstanding horticulturalist, naturalist, and conservationist. She created a seventy-two acre woodland sanctuary, "Wychwood", opened to the public in 1926 and used for study by University of Chicago botany students. She also wrote three books contributing to classification and preservation of the Lake Geneva region native birds and plants.