# Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership

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, 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.
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. 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, helped start American University's Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership in federal government. 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.

## Award recipients

Sortable table :
| Year | Recipient | Recipient department when received award | Recipient position when received award |
| 1978 | Norman Carlson | United States Department of Justice | Director of the Bureau of Prisons |
| 1978 | Edwin C. Kilgore | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Director of Management Operation, Langley Research Center |
| 1979 | Christopher C. Kraft | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center |
| 1979 | 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 |
| 1980 | 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 |
| 1981 | Charles V. Yarbrough | United States Veterans Administration | Director, Management Support |
| 1982 | G. Phillips Hanna | Office of Management and Budget | Deputy Division Chief for Human Resources, Veterans, and Labor |
| 1982 | William C. Watson Jr. | United States Department of Health and Human Services | Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control |
| 1983 | David O. Cooke | United States Department of Defense | Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration |
| 1983 | 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 |
| 1984 | Gerald J. Mossinghoff | United States Postal Service | Assistant Secretary and Commissioner for Patents and Trademarks |
| 1985 | Robert L. Trachtenberg | United States Department of Health and Human Services | Deputy Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration |
| 1985 | Robert J. Eichelberger | United States Department of the Army | Director, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory |
| 1986 | William E. Douglas | United States Department of the Treasury | Commissioner, Financial Management Service |
| 1986 | Earle L. Messere | United States Navy | Technical Director, Naval Underwater Systems Center, Newport |
| 1987 | John R. Simpson | United States Department of the Treasury | Director, U.S. Secret Service, and President of INTERPOL |
| 1987 | Milton J. Socolar | General Accounting Office | Special Assistant to the Comptroller General |
| 1988 | Vernon N. Houk | United States Department of Health and Human Services | Director, Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control, Centers for Disease Control |
| 1988 | Raymond G. Kammer | United States Department of Commerce | Deputy Director, National Bureau of Standards |
| 1989 | Joseph R. Caraveo | United States Postal Service | Regional Postmaster General, Western Region |
| 1989 | 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 |
| 1990 | Stephen E. Higgins | United States Department of the Treasury | Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
| 1991 | Thomas S. McFee | United States Department of Health and Human Services | Assistant Secretary for Personnel Administration |
| 1991 | 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 |
| 1992 | J. Dexter Peach | General Accounting Office | Assistant Comptroller General, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Program |
| 1993 | Walter Dowdle | United States Department of Health and Human Services | Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control |
| 1993 | Eva C. Ugarkovich | United States Air Force | Director of Financial Management |
| 1994 | James J. Devine | National Security Agency | Deputy Director for Support Services |
| 1994 | Ruth Kirschstein | United States Department of Health and Human Services | Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health |
| 1995 | Joan Dempsey | United States Department of Defense | Director, National Military Intelligence Production Center |
| 1995 | Janet Shikles | General Accounting Office | Assistant Comptroller General for Health, Education, and Human Services |
| 1996 | Frank Almaguer | United States Agency for International Development | Deputy Assistant Administrator for Human Resources |
| 1996 | Nancy George | United States Postal Service | Vice President for the Northeast Area |
| 1997 | John Dyer | Social Security Administration | Acting Principal Deputy Commissioner |
| 1997 | J. Wayne Littles | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Director, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center |
| 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 |
| 1998 | William J. Henderson | United States Postal Service | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer |
| 1999 | John E. Sirmalis | United States Navy | Technical Director, Naval Undersea Warfare Center |
| 1999 | Robert S. Winokur | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services |
| 2000 | Charles P. Nemfakos | United States Navy | Deputy Under Secretary for Institutional Strategic Planning |
| 2000 | Janet Woodcock | United States Department of Health and Human Services | Director, Center of Drug Evaluation and Research Food and Drug Administration |
| 2001 | Paul D. Barnes | Social Security Administration | Deputy Commissioner for Human Resources |
| 2001 | Arthur J. Murton | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | Director, Division of Insurance |
| 2002 | Victor J. Ferlise | United States Army | Deputy to the Commanding General, Communications Electronic Command |
| 2002 | Kenneth M. Pusateri | Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board | General Manager |
| 2003 | Larry G. Massanari | Social Security Administration | Regional Commissioner |
| 2003 | James Randolph Farris | United States Department of Health and Human Services | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Regional Administrator |
| 2004 | Jennifer C. Buck | United States Department of Defense | Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs |
| 2004 | Michael J. Zamorski | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | Director, Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection |
| 2005 | Sheila M. Earle | Office of the Secretary of Defense | Acting Principal Director for Military Personnel Policy |
| 2005 | Marvin E. Gunn Jr. | United States Department of Energy | Manager of the Office of Science, Chicago Office |
| 2006 | David M. Altwegg | Office of the Secretary of Defense | Deputy for Agency Operations, Missile Defense Agency |
| 2006 | William H. Gimson III | United States Department of Health and Human Services | Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| 2007 | MaryAnn Musumeci | United States Department of Veterans Affairs | Director, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, The Bronx |
| 2007 | 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 |
| 2008 | Theresa M. Whelan | United States Department of Defense | Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs |
| 2009 | Gene L. Dodaro | Government Accountability Office | Comptroller General of the United States |
| 2009 | Linda E. Stiff | United States Department of the Treasury | Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service |
| 2010 | Kenneth E. Baker | United States Department of Energy | Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation |
| 2010 | Peggy A. Forcarino | United States Department of Commerce | Deputy Commissioner for Patents, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
| 2011 | Margaret Gilligan | Federal Aviation Administration | Associate Administrator |
| 2011 | John A. Montgomery | United States Department of the Navy | Director of Research, Naval Research Laboratory |
| 2012 | Thomas L. Mesenbourg Jr. | United States Census Bureau | Acting Director |
| 2012 | David Wennergren | United States Department of Defense | Assistant Deputy Chief Management Officer |
| 2013 | David A. Bray | Federal Communications Commission | Chief Information Officer |
| 2013 | Brian Persons | United States Department of the Navy | Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfare Systems |