2004 Federal Employee of the Year
Robert F. Clifford
Position: Supervisory Special Agent / Legal Attaché
Agency: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Location: Athens, Greece
Achievement: Led investigation that resulted in the conviction of more than a dozen leaders of the “November 17” Group—Europe’s most notorious and elusive terrorist group.
2004 Career Achievement Medal Recipient
Ambassador Prudence Bushnell
Position: Dean, Leadership and Management School
Agency: U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Guided U.S. Embassy in Kenya through the 1998 bombing and was a leading voice in the U.S. government urging a response to the ethnic genocide in Rwanda.
2004 Call to Service Medal Recipient
Nicole Nelson-Jean
Position: Director
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy, Tokyo Office
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Achievement: Led U.S. delegation to the Arctic Circle for negotiations with Russian officials to better secure Russia’s nuclear materials and weapons. This agreement led to the creation of a service and training center for nuclear material and weapons security in Murmansk, Russia.
2004 Citizen Services Medal Recipient
FTC Do Not Call Team led by Eileen Harrington
Position: Associate Director for Marketing Practices
Agency: Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Developed and implemented the federal Do Not Call Registry, which has reduced the number of telemarketing calls for more than 60 million Americans.
2004 Homeland Security Medal Recipient
Brad Gair
Position: Federal Coordinating Officer
Agency: Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Location: New York, New York
Achievement: Oversaw the federal government’s recovery efforts in New York after 9/11 and supervised other FEMA rebuilding work in the wake of multiple natural disasters.
2004 International Affairs Medal Recipient
Stephen E. Browning
Position: Director, Regional Programs
Agency: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Pacific Division
Location: San Francisco, California
Achievement: Led U.S. efforts to help Iraqis rebuild their electrical infrastructure and acted as the Administrative head of multiple Iraqi ministries; also led Army Corps of Engineers’ recovery efforts at Ground Zero.
2004 Justice and Law Enforcement Medal Recipient
Operation Kids For Cover Team led by Peter Darling
Position: Senior Special Agent
Agency: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Achievement: Shut down a massive conspiracy in which rented babies and women couriers were used to smuggle cocaine in baby formula cans.
2004 Science and Environment Medal Recipient
Dr. Deborah Jin
Position: Physicist
Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Achievement: Created a new form of matter which could potentially unlock the key to superconductivity, a phenomenon with the potential to improve energy efficiency dramatically across a broad range of applications.
The Service to America Medals are presented annually by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service to celebrate excellence in our federal civil service.
