Bradley E. Haddock was a corporate lawyer from Wichita, Kansas and served as the executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc. until January 2009. Koch is the largest privately held company in the United States. During his distinguished career at Koch, Haddock served as lead counsel for several key businesses, including Koch's refining, chemicals, and asphalt businesses, and the group of 10 global manufacturing and engineering businesses that became Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC. While at Koch, he led or significantly participated in more than 70 domestic and international acquisitions. Haddock formed Haddock Law Office, LLC, in January 2009, and through the firm was engaged in the private practice of law. Haddock has received an AV preeminent peer rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating for legal ability and ethics. He was an alumnus of Phillips University, class of 1977, and graduated from law school cum laude in 1980, at Washburn University, where he served as the Executive Editor of the Washburn Law Journal. Haddock was named the 2012 Alumni Fellow for the Washburn University School of Law. Haddock became a member of the board of directors of the American Arbitration Association in 2005. He was also a member of the AAA's roster of neutrals for commercial, construction, environmental, and intellectual property matters. Haddock was a member of the distinguished Panel of Arbitrators for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and he was a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Wichita, Kansas and American Bar Associations. Haddock joined the board of directors of Innovative Combustion Technology, Inc., a boiler burner manufacturer located in Oakland, California, doing business as S. T. Johnson Company, in 2012.
Scouting
Haddock was heavily involved with the Boy Scouts of America and served as chairman of the National Order of the Arrow Committee from 2000 to 2009. He served as the program chairman for the 2010 National Jamboree and the chairman of the Second Century Camping Task Force. Haddock became chairman of the Outdoor Adventures Committee in February 2012, and was elected to the National Executive Board of the BSA on May 31, 2012. He participated on the Membership Standards Initiative Task Force and as the chairman of the Membership Implementation Team following the approval of new Youth Membership Standards during the May 2013 national meetings of the Boy Scouts of America. Haddock was an Eagle Scout and earned the God & Country Award. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award and was honored with the Silver Buffalo Award in 2006. As a youth, Haddock was both the National Chief of the Order of the Arrow, Scouting's national honor society, and a youth member of the National Executive Board of the BSA. He has also been honored with the Vigil Honor, Founder's Award, Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, OA National Distinguished Service Awards, and the Hornaday Gold Badge as a result of the ArrowCorps5 project executed during the summer of 2008. As chairman of the Order of the Arrow Committee, Haddock led the ArrowCorps5 project, which was the largest single service project ever provided by the BSA and the largest service project ever received by the United States Forest Service. The project was conducted in five national forests resulting in 280,000 hours of service worth $5.6 million. Haddock was a James E. West Fellow. He and his wife were also enshrined as members of the 1910 Society. Haddock was a life member of the National Eagle Scout Association and the Philmont Staff Association. During his career as a volunteer, he served as a district chairman, council commissioner, and president of Quivira Council. He also served as a lodge adviser, co-chairman of the National Report to the Nation program from 1983 through 1986, North Central Region OA chairman, and as a vice chairman of the national OA Committee. Haddock is the only person in the history of the OA to be elected as National Chief by his peers and to later become the volunteer chairman of the national OA committee. He is also the only person to have served as a youth member of the BSA's National Executive Board and later as an elected member of the board as an adult volunteer. Haddock was only the sixth scouter from Kansas to receive the prestigious Silver Buffalo Award from the national council of the BSA since the award was introduced in 1926.
Personal life
Haddock met his wife, Terri, at the national council meeting of the Boy Scouts of America where they both received the Young American Award in 1976. They had a son and a daughter. Haddock died on April 1, 2019.
