2012 Federal Employee of the Year
Lynne Meryl Mofenson
Position: Branch Chief, Pediatric, Adolescent and Maternal AIDS Branch
Agency: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Location: Rockville, Maryland
Achievement: Played a pivotal role in preventing the AIDS epidemic among children by studying ways to prevent mother-to-child transmission.
2012 Career Achievement Medal Recipient
James Cash
Position: Chief Technical Advisor, Office of Research and Engineering
Agency: National Transportation Safety Board
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement:For nearly three decades, has used his engineering expertise to extract information from airplane cockpit recorders and other devices to determine the causes of major transportation accidents, and once analyzed a quarter second of noise to help determine why a 747 exploded 12 minutes after takeoff.
2012 Call to Service Medal Recipient
Jacob M. Taylor
Position: Physicist
Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland
Achievement: Came up with an original scientific theory that could lead to medical imaging in microscopic detail for better health care, while also developing innovative technology to allow greater quantities of data to speed across the Internet with less energy and at lower cost.
2012 Citizen Services Medal Recipient
Susan Angell, Mark Johnston and the Homeless Veterans Initiative Team
Positions: Executive Director, Veterans Homeless Initiative (Angell); Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs, Office of Community Planning and Development (Johnston)
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs (Angell); Department of Housing and Urban Development (Johnston)
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Led an interdepartmental program that reduced veterans homelessness by 12 percent in one year as part of an ambitious national goal of finding shelter for all veterans by 2015.
2012 Homeland Security Medal Recipients
Nael Samha and Thomas Roland, Jr.
Position: Program Manager, Office of Technology (Samha) and Program Manager, Office of Field Operations (Roland)
Agency: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
Achievement: Created a smartphone application that allows customs and border agents in the field to access law enforcement databases in real time, which has led to enforcement actions against more than 450 drug traffickers, weapons smugglers, illegal aliens and potential terror suspects since March 2010.
2012 Justice and Law Enforcement Medal Recipient
Louis Milione and the Operation Relentless Team
Position: Special Agent and Group Supervisor
Agency: Drug Enforcement Administration
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Led a high-stakes federal undercover investigation spanning three continents that resulted in the arrest and conviction of the "Merchant of Death," the world's most notorious arms trafficker.
2012 Management Excellence Medal
Elliott B. Branch
Position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Acquisition and Procurement
Agency: Department of the Navy
Location: Washington, D.C.
Achievement: Through savvy acquisition and procurement, ensures our warfighters have the right equipment when they need it, at the best possible value for the American taxpayer.
2012 National Security and International Affairs Medal Recipient
Charles Scoville
Position: Chief, Amputee Patient Care Service
Agency: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Achievement:Enables combat amputees to lead active lives and potentially return to duty, through an internationally recognized rehabilitation program that uses a novel sports medicine approach.
2012 Science and Environment Medal Recipient
Neal S. Young
Position: Chief of the Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Achievement: Saves lives through cutting-edge research and treatments for patients with bone marrow failure diseases, including the rare and once deadly blood disorder known as aplastic anemia.
The Service to America Medals are presented annually by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service to celebrate excellence in our federal civil service.
