Federal employees from eight agencies have been awarded Service
to America Medals — created in 2002 by the Partnership for
Public Service and the Atlantic Media Company – in recognition
of their exemplary achievement.
PPS listed the awardees as follows: “Robert Clifford, the FBI
agent from Charlotte, North Carolina who helped convict more
than a dozen leaders of the “November 17” group — Europe’s
most notorious and elusive terrorist cell; Ambassador Prudence
Bushnell from Falls Church, Virginia who guided the U.S.
Embassy in Kenya through the 1998 bombings and was a leading
voice for the nation in urging a response to the ethnic genocide
in Rwanda ; Nicole Nelson-Jean. a Department of Energy employee
who, at 28 years of age, led a U.S. delegation to the Arctic
Circle to negotiate an agreement with Russian officials to
better secure Russia ‘s nuclear weapons stockpiles; Brad Gair,
a FEMA employee from Brooklyn, New York who oversaw the
government’s recovery efforts at Ground Zero after 9/11 and
supervised other FEMA rebuilding work in the wake of multiple
natural disasters; Dr. Deborah Jin, a National Institute of
Standards and Technology physicist from Boulder, Colorado who
created a new form of matter that may have the potential to
improve the nation’s energy efficiency; Stephen Browning from
Sausalito, California who led U.S. efforts to help Iraqis rebuild
their electrical infrastructure and acted as the administrative
head of multiple Iraqi ministries; The “Operation Kids for Cover”
team led by Peter Darling from Newbury, Massachusetts which shut
down an international drug smuggling ring using rented babies to
smuggle cocaine in baby formula cans; and the FTC team led by
Eileen Harrington from Kensington, Maryland who created the
national “Do Not Call” registry, which has reduced the number of
telemarketing calls for more than 60 million Americans.”
Nominations for the 2005 medals are now open, and should be submitted
