Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership

Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership
Awarded for	U.S. Federal government executive leadership
Sponsored by	American University School of Public Affairs
Location	Washington, D.C.
Country	United States
First award	1978
Most awards	United States Department of Health and Human Services
Website	american.edu

List of Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership recipients is a compilation of United States government executives who have received the Jones Award from the American University School of Public Affairs, an institution of higher education and research located in Washington, D.C. that grants academic degrees in fields such as political science, public administration, public policy, and justice, law and society. First awarded in 1978, ^[1] the award has been presented every year since then to two United States federal career executives who have shown leadership in the training of federal government managers and executives and in organizational abilities. ^[2]

The awards namesake, Roger W. Jones (1908 – 1993), was a federal civil servant who helped direct the Office of Management and Budget in the 1940s and 1950s. ^[3] In 1978, Bernard Rosen, a former United States Civil Service Commission executive director, graduate instructor at the American University, and subsequent author of the 1984 book Holding Government Bureaucracies Accountable, ^[4] helped start American University's Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership in federal government. ^[5] In 2002, Victor J. Ferlise, United States Army Deputy to the Commanding General, Communications Electronic Command, received the award on September 24, which marked the 25th anniversary of the award. ^[6]

Award recipients

Sortable table

Year	Recipient		Recipient department when received award	Recipient position when received award	Note
1978		Norman Carlson	United States Department of Justice	Director of the Bureau of Prisons	[1]
		Edwin C. Kilgore	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Director of Management Operation, Langley Research Center	[1]
1979		Christopher C. Kraft	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center	[7]
		Dale R. McOmber	Office of Management and Budget	Assistant Director, Budget Review
1980		Harry S. Havens	General Accounting Office	Assistant Comptroller General for Program Evaluation	[8]
		Francis J. Mulhern	United States Department of Agriculture	Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
1981		William R. Lucas	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Marshall Flight Center, Director	[2]
		Charles V. Yarbrough	United States Veterans Administration	Director, Management Support	[2]
1982		G. Phillips Hanna	Office of Management and Budget	Deputy Division Chief for Human Resources, Veterans, and Labor	[9]
		William C. Watson Jr.	United States Department of Health and Human Services	Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control	[10]
1983		David O. Cooke	United States Department of Defense	Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration	[11]
		Joyce J. Walker	Office of Management and Budget	Deputy Associate Director for Transportation, Commerce, and Housing
1984		Stanley Goldberg	United States Department of the Treasury	Assistant Commissioner, Returns and Information Processing, Internal Revenue Service
		Gerald J. Mossinghoff	United States Postal Service	Assistant Secretary and Commissioner for Patents and Trademarks	[12]
1985		Robert L. Trachtenberg	United States Department of Health and Human Services	Deputy Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration	[13]
		Robert J. Eichelberger	United States Department of the Army	Director, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory	[14]
1986		William E. Douglas	United States Department of the Treasury	Commissioner, Financial Management Service	[15]
		Earle L. Messere	United States Navy	Technical Director, Naval Underwater Systems Center, Newport	[16]
1987		John R. Simpson	United States Department of the Treasury	Director, U.S. Secret Service, and President of INTERPOL	[17]
		Milton J. Socolar	General Accounting Office	Special Assistant to the Comptroller General	[18]
1988		Vernon N. Houk	United States Department of Health and Human Services	Director, Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control, Centers for Disease Control
		Raymond G. Kammer	United States Department of Commerce	Deputy Director, National Bureau of Standards	[19]
1989		Joseph R. Caraveo	United States Postal Service	Regional Postmaster General, Western Region
		Richard A. Clarke	United States Department of State	Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research
1990		James L. Blum	Congressional Budget Office	Assistant Director for Budget Analysis	[20]
		Stephen E. Higgins	United States Department of the Treasury	Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms	[21]
1991		Thomas S. McFee	United States Department of Health and Human Services	Assistant Secretary for Personnel Administration	[22]
		Joseph L. Moore	United States Department of Veterans Affairs	Director, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago
1992		Aaron Cohen	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center	[23]
		J. Dexter Peach	General Accounting Office	Assistant Comptroller General, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Program	[24]
1993		Walter Dowdle	United States Department of Health and Human Services	Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control
		Eva C. Ugarkovich	United States Air Force	Director of Financial Management
1994		James J. Devine	National Security Agency	Deputy Director for Support Services
		Ruth Kirschstein	United States Department of Health and Human Services	Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health	[25]
1995		Joan Dempsey	United States Department of Defense	Director, National Military Intelligence Production Center	[26]
		Janet Shikles	General Accounting Office	Assistant Comptroller General for Health, Education, and Human Services	[27]
1996		Frank Almaguer	United States Agency for International Development	Deputy Assistant Administrator for Human Resources	[28]
		Nancy George	United States Postal Service	Vice President for the Northeast Area	[29]
1997		John Dyer	Social Security Administration	Acting Principal Deputy Commissioner
		J. Wayne Littles	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Director, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center	[30]
1998		Virginia S. Bales	United States Department of Health and Human Services	Deputy Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control
		William J. Henderson	United States Postal Service	Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer	[31]
1999		John E. Sirmalis	United States Navy	Technical Director, Naval Undersea Warfare Center	[32]
		Robert S. Winokur	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services	[33]
2000		Charles P. Nemfakos	United States Navy	Deputy Under Secretary for Institutional Strategic Planning	[34]
		Janet Woodcock	United States Department of Health and Human Services	Director, Center of Drug Evaluation and Research Food and Drug Administration	[35]
2001		Paul D. Barnes	Social Security Administration	Deputy Commissioner for Human Resources	[36]
		Arthur J. Murton	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	Director, Division of Insurance	[37] [38]
2002		Victor J. Ferlise	United States Army	Deputy to the Commanding General, Communications Electronic Command	[6] [39]
		Kenneth M. Pusateri	Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board	General Manager	[40]
2003		Larry G. Massanari	Social Security Administration	Regional Commissioner	[41]
		James Randolph Farris	United States Department of Health and Human Services	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Regional Administrator	[42]
2004		Jennifer C. Buck	United States Department of Defense	Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs	[43]
		Michael J. Zamorski	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	Director, Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection	[37] [44]
2005		Sheila M. Earle	Office of the Secretary of Defense	Acting Principal Director for Military Personnel Policy	[45]
		Marvin E. Gunn Jr.	United States Department of Energy	Manager of the Office of Science, Chicago Office	[45]
2006		David M. Altwegg	Office of the Secretary of Defense	Deputy for Agency Operations, Missile Defense Agency	[46] [47]
		William H. Gimson III	United States Department of Health and Human Services	Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	[46]
2007		MaryAnn Musumeci	United States Department of Veterans Affairs	Director, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, The Bronx	[48] [49]
		John E. Potter	United States Postal Service	Postmaster General and chief executive officer
2008		Thomas A. Betro	United States Department of the Navy	Director, Naval Criminal Investigative Service	[50]
		Theresa M. Whelan	United States Department of Defense	Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs	[50]
2009		Gene L. Dodaro	Government Accountability Office	Comptroller General of the United States	[51]
		Linda E. Stiff	United States Department of the Treasury	Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service	[51]
2010		Kenneth E. Baker	United States Department of Energy	Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation	[52]
		Peggy A. Forcarino	United States Department of Commerce	Deputy Commissioner for Patents, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office	[52]
2011		Margaret Gilligan	Federal Aviation Administration	Associate Administrator	[53]
		John A. Montgomery	United States Department of the Navy	Director of Research, Naval Research Laboratory	[53] [54]
2012		Thomas L. Mesenbourg Jr.	United States Census Bureau	Acting Director	[55] [56]
		David Wennergren	United States Department of Defense	Assistant Deputy Chief Management Officer	[56]
2013		David A. Bray	Federal Communications Commission	Chief Information Officer	[3]
		Brian Persons	United States Department of the Navy	Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfare Systems	[3]

See also

• American University School of Public Affairs
• Roger W. Jones
• List of social sciences awards

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