2010 Finalists—Career Achievement Medal
This award will recognize a federal employee for significant accomplishments throughout a lifetime of achievement in public service. This medal is accompanied by a $10,000 award.
Ronald Sanders
Position: Associate Director of National Intelligence for Human Capital (Ret.)
Agency: Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Location: McLean, Virginia
Achievement: Through nearly four decades of public service, led major organizational and personnel reforms in critical areas of the federal government that contributed to greater interagency cooperation, and better service and accountability to the American people.
Joseph T. Schaefer
Position: Director, Storm Prediction Center (Ret.)
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
Achievement: Responsible for creating state-of-the-art systems to better predict and provide earlier forecasts and warnings of tornadoes, saving thousands of American lives every year.
Susan Solomon
Position: Senior Scientist, Chemical Science Division
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth System Research Laboratory
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Achievement: Led internationally acclaimed atmospheric research that set us on a path to restoring the ozone layer and demonstrated the long-term harm to the environment caused by global warming.
Sue Ellen Walbridge
Position: Program Analyst, Office of Science
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Helping improve America’s global competitiveness by encouraging more than 300,000 students to consider careers in math and science.
Peter Wilhelm
Position: Director, Naval Center for Space Technology
Agency: Naval Research Laboratory
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Developed and deployed 95 satellites, pioneering significant advances from lunar exploration to GPS to global weather forecasting.
The Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals are presented annually by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service to celebrate excellence in our federal civil service.
