2009 Federal Employee of the Year
Janet Kemp
Position: National Director, Suicide Prevention Program
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
Location: Canandaigua, New York
Achievement: Established a national suicide prevention hotline for veterans, which has resulted in more than 5,000 immediate rescues.
2009 Career Acheivement Medal Recipient
Thomas Alexander Waldmann
Position: Chief, Metabolism Branch
Agency: National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Achievement: Over the course of a 52-year career, made cutting-edge discoveries that have led to effective treatments for previously fatal forms of T-cell leukemia, Hodgkin’s lymphoma and multiple sclerosis.
2009 Call to Service Medal Recipient
Clare D Rowley
Position: Economic Analyst
Agency: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Helped thousands stay in their homes by working to implement IndyMac’s mortgage modification program after the bank failed, and advised the Obama administration’s efforts to reduce foreclosures.
2009 Citizen Services Medal Recipient
Michael German
Position: National Team Leader
Agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Achievement: Created partnerships to reduce homelessness with more than 850 state and local leaders, which have contributed to a 30 percent reduction in long-term homelessness.
2009 Environment Medal Recipient
T. Allan Comp
Position: Program Analyst
Agency: Department of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Built a network of volunteers to revitalize communities in Appalachian coal country and the Western Hardrock mining region to repair decades of environmental degradation.
2009 Homeland Security Medal Recipients
Don Burke and Sean P. Dennehy
Position: Intellipedia Doyen (Burke) and Intellipedia and Enterprise 2.0 Evangelist (Dennehy)
Agency: Central Intelligence Agency
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Promoted information sharing across the intelligence community through the development and implementation of “Intellipedia,” a Wikipedia-like clearinghouse of intelligence expertise.
2009 Justice and Law Enforcement Medal Recipient
Walter Benjamin Fisherow
Position: Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section
Agency: Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Coordinated the largest Clean Air Act enforcement actions ever, which will result in the reduction of harmful air pollutants by nearly 2 million tons each year.
2009 National Security and International Affairs Medal Recipient
Amy Meyer
Position: Director, Office of Economic Growth, Pakistan Mission
Agency: U.S. Agency for International Development
Location: Pakistan
Achievement: Led USAID’s Economic Growth Office in Pakistan, helping to build the program from a two-person office to a $200 million initiative.
2009 Science and Technology Medal Recipient
Patricia Guerry
Position: Chief, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Branch
Agency: U.S. Naval Medical Research Center
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
Achievement: Created the Campylobacter vaccine to prevent the world’s top cause of food-borne intestinal illness.
The Service to America Medals are presented annually by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service to celebrate excellence in our federal civil service.
