Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals

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Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, presents the National Security and International Affairs Medal to Michael Duncan, former deputy chief medical officer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at the 2011 Sammies gala in Washington.

Awarded for| Making a significant contribution to the country.
Country| United States
Presented by| Partnership for Public Service
First awarded| 5 October 2002
(21 years ago) (2002-10-05)
Website| servicetoamericamedals.org

The Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as "the Sammies", honor members of the federal government workforce, highlighting the work of employees making significant contributions to the governance of the United States. The awards are considered "the Oscars" of American government service.[1] The Sammies accordingly celebrate excellence in the federal merit service.[2]

## Background[edit]

The awards have been presented annually since 2002 by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service to celebrate excellence in the U.S. federal civil service, and are named for Samuel J. Heyman, the organization's founder. To date, over 120 individuals and teams have been recognized.[citation needed]

## Selection process[edit]

The Sammies are chosen from nominations collected each winter, and narrowed down to about 30 finalists announced mid-spring of each year during Public Service Recognition Week. The finalists are assessed, and from their ranks, eight awardees are selected by early fall. The Sammies selection committee is composed of nationally known journalists, political leaders, educators, and executives of large corporations. The eight awards cover the various sectors of federal public service. Honorees are chosen for their commitment and innovation, as well as the impact of their work on addressing the needs of the republic. Awardees are announced each fall at a dinner and awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. The Sammies finalists are those federal employees confronting complex issues of governance, including environmental, national security, and economic challenges. One criterion of the award is to qualify from among a dynamic group of talented, bright individuals working on behalf of the American people. The awards are organized and presented by the non-profit organization Partnership for Public Service.[citation needed]

## Recipients[edit]

### 2000s[3][edit]

| Winners  | Category

|
|

2002  | William Fleming & Ben Herren

Katharine Blodgett Gebbie

Daniel Weinberg

Rachel Billingslea

Kenneth Conepcion

Robert Rutherford

Alfred League

Donald Sweeney

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2003  | Stephen McHale

James P. Bagain

Nelson Hernandez (among others)

Denise Johnson

Alyson McFarland

Earl Stockdale

Riaz Awan

Paul Polski

Edward J. Needham (among others)

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Citizen Services

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2004  | Robert F. Clifford

Prudence Bushnell

Eileen Harrington (among others)

Nicole Nelson-Jean

Deborah S. Jin

Stephen E. Browning

Peter Darling (among others)

Brad Gair

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2005  | Orlando Figueroa

Barbara Turner

Terence Lutes

Kevin McAleenan

Subhashree Madhavan (among others)

Tobin Bradley

Elizabeth Grossman

Alan Estevez

Steven Bice

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2006  | Nancy Cox

William Daniel Phillips

Thomas Casadevall (among others)

Christina Sanford

Norden E. Huang

Mark S. Ward

Nancy Jo Powell

W. Martin Harrell

Ron McNeal

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2007  | Douglas R. Lowly & John T. Schiller

David Vesely

Dinah F. B. Cohen

Nicole Faison

Frazer Lockhart (among others)

Tracy Mustin

John S. Morgan (among others)

Anh Duong

Edward Messmer

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2008  | Richard Greene

Stephen O. Andersen

Rajiv Jain

Alain D. Carballeyra

Steven G. Chalk

Mary Katherine Friedrich

Mark Pletcher

Eddie Bernard

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2009  | Janet Kemp

Thomas Alexander Waldmann

Michael German

Clare D. Rowley

Patricia Guerry

T. Allan Comp

Amy Meyer

Donald Burke & Sean P. Dennehy

Walter Benjamin Fisherow

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

### 2010s[edit]

| Winners  | Award Category

|
|

2010  | Pius Bannis

Susan Solomon

Shane Kelley & Eva Ristow

Saskia van Gendt

Jeffrey M. Baker

Jamie L. Konstas

Teri Glass (among others)

Sandra K. Brooks

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2011  | Paul A. Hsieh

Alfonso Batres

W. Todd Grams

Diane K. Braunstein

Ann S. Martin

William A. Gahl

Charles Heurich (among others)

James Michael Duncan (among others)

C. Norman Coleman

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Management Excellence

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2012  | Lynne Meryl Mofenson

James Cash

Elliot B. Branch

Susan Angell & Mark Johnston (among others)

Jacob M. Taylor

Neal S. Young

Louis Milione (among others)

Nael Samha & Thomas Roland Jr.

Charles Scoville

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Management Excellence

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2013  | Julie Segre & Tara Palmore (among others)

Orice Williams Brown

Kevin T. Geiss

Daniel Madrzykowski

Andrew Rabens

David Lavery (among others)

John MacKinnon (among others)

Hamid Jafari

Antonio J. Mendez

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Management Excellence

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

(General Winner)

2014  | Rana Hajjeh (among others)

Edwin Kneedler

Alan J. Lindenmoyer

Michael Byrne

Sara Meyers

William A. Bauman and Ann M. Spungen

Omar Aybar & Reginald France (among others)

Sean Young & Benjamin Tran

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Management Excellence

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2015  | Steven A. Rosenberg

Hyun Soon Lillehoj

Edward C. Hugler

Jean Zenklusen & Carolyn Hutter (among others)

Lucile Jones

Adam R. Schildge

Jacob E. Moss

Mia Beers (among others)

Ron Ross

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Management Excellence

People's Choice Award

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2016  | Paul McGann, Jean M. Williams, Dennis Wagner

Kathleen Hogan

William Gregory Burel

Edward Grace (among others)

Lisa M. Jones

Tate Jarrow

Jaques Reifman (among others)

Kirk Yeager

Thomas Mariani, S. O'Rourke, S. Himmelhoch

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Management Excellence

People's Choice Award

Citizen Services

Emerging Leaders

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2017  | Phillip Brooks, Byron Bunker, & Josh Van Eaton

Tedd V. Ellerbrock

Courtney Lias & Stayce Beck (among others)

Surabhi Shah (among others)

Flora M. Jordan

Rory A. Cooper

Timothy P. Camus (among others)

Alex Mahoney (among others)

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Management Excellence

People's Choice Award

Promising Innovations Medal

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2018  | Daniel L. Kastner

Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp

Marcella Jacobs (among others)

Alison Smith

Jeff Bezos

Parimal Kopardekar

Margaret Honein

Karen Dodge & Margaret Moeser (among others)

Andrew M. Herscowitz (among others)

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Management Excellence

People's Choice Award

Spirit of Service Award

Promising Innovations Medal

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2019  | Victoria Brahm

Ann McKee

Robert Cabana (among others)

Michael R. Bloomberg

Daniel B. Jernigan

Jamie Rhome

Ryan Shelby

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Management Excellence

Spirit of Service Award

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Safety, Security and International Affairs

### 2020s[edit]

| Winners  | Category

|
|

2020  | Anthony Fauci

Ira Pastan

Neil C. Evans, Kathleen L. Frisbee, Kevin Galpin

Corvelli A. McDaniel & Lorraine Cole

Vikram Krishnasamy

Satya Nadella

Beth Ripley

Donna F. Dodson

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement[4]

Management Excellence

People's Choice Award

Emerging Leaders

Spirit of Service Award

Science and Environment

Safety, Security and International Affairs

2021  | Kizzmekia Corbett and Barney S. Graham

Ana Hinojosa, Eric Choy and team

Michelle Daniels, Charles Eldridge and Ryan Jones

Evan Kwerel

Gary Gibbons and Eliseo Pérez-Stable

Reem Ghandour

Callie Higgins

Laurene Powell Jobs

| Federal Employee of the Year

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Management Excellence

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement

COVID-19 Response

Science, Technology and Environment

Emerging Leaders

Spirit of Service

2022  | Gregory Robinson

Krista Kinnard

Clifford Lane

Operation Allies Welcome Resettlement Team

Cynthia A. Newberg

Amanda Cohn, Anita Patel, David Fitter

Barbara C. Morton

Josh Josa

Darren Walker

| Federal Employee of the Year

Emerging Leaders

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Science, Technology and Environment

COVID-19 Response

Management Excellence

People's Choice Award

Spirit of Service Award

2023  | Laura Cooper[5]

Melissa Emrey-Arras

Joshua C. Mellor, Nicholas I. Cheviron, Stephanie Stevens

Brian Key, Scott Bellamy

Paul Nissenbaum, Gloria M. Shepherd, Maria S. Lefevre

Fletcher Schoen, Jennifer Harkins

Sarah O’Donnell, Allison Hutchings, Megan Meacham

Judy Woodruff

| Federal Employee of the Year

Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement

Safety, Security and International Affairs

Science, Technology and Environment

Management Excellence

Emerging Leaders

People's Choice Award

Spirit of Service Award

## References[edit]

1. ^ Stand-Out Public Servants Receive Coveted Service to America Medals at Washington, D.C. Gala; "Oscars" of Government Service Recipients Work in Washington, D.C., Colorado, Florida, California and Haiti (September 16, 2010); see also Timothy B. Clark, Making a Difference, National Journal (October 7, 2006).
2. ^ Gabrielle Maxey, Risky Business, The University of Memphis Magazine (Fall 2010); see also Marie Gilbert, "Hagerstown man one of 34 finalists for the 2011 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals", Herald-Mail (Hagerstown, Maryland) (August 27, 2011) at 1 (reporting on the finalist Daniel P. Meyer from the Department of Defense).
3. ^ Medals, Samuel J. Heyman Service to America. "Honoree Archive • Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals". Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Medals, Samuel J. Heyman Service to America. "Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Medal • Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals". Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
5. ^ Medals, Samuel J. Heyman Service to America. "Laura Cooper". Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals. Retrieved 2024-01-14.

## External links[edit]

* Service to America Medals
* 2020 Service to America Medals Awards Celebration