The Partnership for Public Service announced its 26 finalists for the 2017 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal, which recognizes top federal employees who have stood out in their fields. The Partnership, which bills the awards as the “Oscars of government service,” will honor the finalists at a May 9 reception, as part of Public Service Recognition Week.

Career achievement medal finalists

This award recognizes federal employee for their continued accomplishments throughout a federal career of 20 or more years.

• Jitender P. Dubey – microbiologist, Agricultural Research Service
• Dr. Tedd V. Ellerbrock – chief of HIV Care and Treatment Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Joseph J. Seebode – deputy district engineer and chief of programs and project management, Army Corps of Engineers
• Hanwant B. Singh – senior scientist, NASA Ames Research Center

Homeland security & law enforcement medal finalists

• Phillip A. Brooks, Byron Bunker and Joshua H. Van Eaton – director, Air Enforcement Division (Brooks); division director, Compliance Division (Bunker); trial attorney (Van Eaton)
  Environmental Protection Agency (Brooks and Bunker); Department of Justice (Van Eaton)
• Timothy P. Camus and the IRS Impersonation Scam team – deputy inspector general for investigations, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
• Bryan Drake, Catherine Kuo Dick, Abhijit Dixit and Kevin Nalu – Special Agents (Drake, Dixit and Nalu); Trial Attorney (Dick) Federal Bureau of Investigation (Drake); Department of Justice (Dick); Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (Dixit); Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (Nalu)
• Nat Wood and the IdentityTheft.gov Development Team – associate director for consumer and business education, Federal Trade Commission

Management excellence medal finalists

This medal goes to a federal employee or team for a significant accomplishment that exemplifies efficient, effective and results-oriented government.

• Elizabeth Angerman and team – executive director, Unified Shared Services Management, General Services Administration
• Thomas R. Davis and the Rental Assistance Demonstration team – director, Office of Recapitalization, Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Courtney Lias, Stayce Beck and the FDA Artificial Pancreas team – director of the Division of Chemistry and Toxicology Devices (Lias); Chief, Diabetes Diagnostic Devices Branch (Beck),
  Food and Drug Administration
• John Pilotte and Heather Grimsley – director, Performance-based Payment Policy Group (Pilotte); director, Division of Shared Savings Program (Grimsley), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Brenda B. Smith and the Single Window Team – executive assistant commissioner for trade,
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Management excellence medal finalists

This medal is awarded to a federal employee or team for their work in fields such as defense, military affairs, diplomacy, foreign assistance and trade.

• Alex Mahoney and the Middle East Crisis Humanitarian Response team – response manager, U.S. Agency for International Development
• Mark Skoog – autonomous systems principal investigator, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
• Jon R. Smibert – resident legal advisor, Department of Justice, criminal division
• Vincent Tang and the SIGMA Team – program manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Promising innovations medal finalists

The medal is awarded to a federal employee or team for their work on a promising discovery, breakthrough technology or innovative approach to a significant challenge.

• Flora M. Jordan – armor and load bearing team engineer, Marine Corps Systems Command
• Sarah Jovan and Geoffrey H. Donovan – research ecologist (Jovan), research forester (Donovan), U.S. Forest Service
• Lisa Mazzuca – search and rescue mission manager, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Paul R. Ohodnicki, Jr. – materials scientist at the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Department of Energy
• Pamela L. Sheehan – research environmental engineer, Development and Engineering Center
  U.S. Army Armament Research
  

Science and environment medal finalists

This medal recognizes federal employees and their teams for their achievements in fields such as biomedicine, economics, energy, information technology, meteorology, resource conservation and space.

• Rory A. Cooper – director of human engineering research laboratories, Department of Veterans Affairs
• Dr. David J. Lipman and team – director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health
• Justin C. Sanchez – director, Biological Technologies Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Surabhi Shah and the Urban Waters team – director of the Urban Waters program, Environmental Protection Agency

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