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# 2023 Presidential Rank Awards Winners

## FY2023 Distinguished Executive (SES) Recipients

### Department of Agriculture

              - Cathy Glover

### Department of Commerce

              - Marla Dowell
              - Jeffrey L. Payne
              - Stephen M. Volz

### Department of Defense

#### Office of the Secretary of Defense

              - Christine Marie Condon
              - Laura K. Cooper
              - Paul D. Cramer
              - Anne J. McAndrew
              - Michael D. Payne

#### Department of the Air Force

              - Edwin H. Oshiba

#### Department of the Army

              - Edward Earl Belk, Jr.
              - Michael A. Ramsey
              - Bryan R. Samson

#### Department of the Navy

              - Steven C. Cade
              - Bruce G. Danly
              - Gregg Thomas Habel
              - Craig Dean Jensen
              - Deline R. Reardon
              - Matthew D. Sermon

### Department of Education

              - Larry G. Kean

### Department of Energy

              - Troy J. Mueller

### Environmental Protection Agency

              - Gregory Sayles

### General Services Administration

              - Thomas F. Howder, Jr.

### Department of Health and Human Services

              - Nikki R. Bratcher-Bowman
              - Norris W. Cochran
              - Camille Marie Hoover

### Department of Homeland Security

              - Randolph D. Alles
              - Staci A. Barrera
              - Kenneth W. Bible
              - Elizabeth Cappello
              - Albert Curry, Jr.
              - Jeffrey J. Dorko
              - Nina Marie Ferraro
              - Tae Johnson
              - Sonya T. Proctor
              - Jason E. Schwabel
              - Robert P. Vente

### Department of Housing and Urban Development

              - Jean Lin Pao

### Department of the Interior

              - Walter D. Cruickshank

### Department of Justice

              - Rosemary A. Hart

### National Aeronautics and Space Administration

              - Karen E. Flynn
              - Paul Louis Hertz
              - John H. Honeycutt
              - Burton R. Summerfield
              - Edgar G. Waggoner
              - Timmy Ray Wilson

### National Science Foundation

              - Sylvia M. Butterfield
              - Rebecca L. Keiser

### Office of Management and Budget

              - Dominic J. Mancini

### Office of Personnel Management

              - Timothy F. Curry

### Social Security Administration

              - Michelle A. King

### Department of State

              - Mary Catherine Malin

### Department of the Treasury

              - Todd C. Conklin
              - James L. Fish
              - James C. Lee
              - Robert F. Mahaffie
              - Tami L. Perriello

### United States Agency for International Development

              - Maria Price Detherage

### Department of Veterans Affairs

              - Ronald S. Burke, Jr.
              - Kimberly A. Graves
              - Jeffrey F. London
              - Katherine M. Palmer
              - John J. Rohrer

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## FY2023 Meritorious Executive (SES) Recipients

### Department of Agriculture

              - Stuart A. Bender
              - Laurence D. Chandler
              - Christopher B. French
              - Roger W. Glendenning
              - Tameka Owens
              - Kevin Shea
              - Jeffrey Silverstein
              - Pamela Starke-Reed
              - Soumaya M. Tohamy

### Department of Commerce

              - Juliana P. Blackwell
              - Bismarck Myrick
              - Alex Villanueva
              - Valencia Martin Wallace

### Department of Defense

#### Office of the Secretary of Defense

              - Rebecca S. Beck
              - Catherine L. Contreras
              - Roger S. Greenwell
              - David E. Johnson
              - David R. Kless
              - Kim R. Laurance
              - Steven J. Morani
              - Shirley L. Reed
              - Brandi C. Vann

#### Department of the Air Force

              - Richard T. Aldridge
              - Robert Brisson
              - Heidi H. Bullock
              - Mark R. Engelbaum
              - Steven Ruehl
              - Timothy J. Sakulich
              - Douglas Drew Sanders
              - Kelli L. Seybolt
              - Michael R. Shoults
              - Robert Chandler Swallow
              - Kimberly K. Toney

#### Department of the Army

              - Brian D. Butler
              - Frances E. Coffey
              - Bartley P. Durst
              - Daniel Gallagher
              - William J. Koon
              - Jeffrey L. Langhout
              - William T. Lasher
              - Marion G. Whicker

#### Department of the Navy

              - Bilyana T. Anderson
              - Charles L. Bidwell
              - Douglas C. Blake
              - Michael R. Durkin
              - Roy W. Harris
              - Robert D. Hogue
              - Victor B. Minella
              - Thomas M. Minvielle
              - William E. Taylor

### Department of Education

              - Ruth E. Ryder

### Department of Energy

              - David S. Brown
              - Michael D. Budney
              - David A. Lagraffe
              - Brian J. Lally
              - Stephen K. Nalley

### Environmental Protection Agency

              - Elizabeth Behl
              - Jennifer McLain

### Federal Trade Commission

              - James Reilly Dolan

### General Services Administration

              - Bo Berlas
              - George R. Prochaska

### Department of Health and Human Services

              - Sherri A. Berger
              - Joshua A. Bornstein
              - Christa Capozzola
              - Amy Larrick Chavez-Valdez
              - Jillian Elizabeth Curtis
              - Keith R. Lamirande
              - Colleen McGowan
              - Timothy R. Noonan
              - John J. Petillo
              - Jerrard R. Sheehan
              - Arrah Tabe-Bedward
              - Rajiv Uppal

### Department of Homeland Security

              - Sidney K. Aki
              - Daniel Bible
              - Jeffrey M. Bobich
              - Jeffrey Caine
              - Jose M. Fabre
              - Rachelle Henderson
              - Thomas F. Huse
              - Brian Lambert
              - Bryan R. Lemons
              - Tammy M. Meckley
              - Connie Nolan
              - Ronald M. Rosenberg
              - Diane V. Sahakian
              - Adrian Sevier
              - Neal J. Swartz
              - Douglas Thigpen
              - David Torres
              - Herbert O. Wolfe

### Department of the Interior

              - Byron M. Adkins, Jr.
              - Grant S. Beebe
              - Anne E. Kinsinger
              - Douglas A. Lords
              - Janine M. Velasco

### Department of Justice

              - Seth M. Barsky
              - Jarrod D. Bruner

### Department of Labor

              - Nicholas E. Lalpuis

### National Aeronautics and Space Administration

              - John W. Bailey, Jr.
              - Kenneth D. Bowersox
              - Joseph Christopher Cianciola
              - Stephen David Creech
              - Lori S. Glaze
              - Michael Hesse
              - Joanne Hill-Kittle
              - Howard C. Hu
              - Karla Smith Jackson
              - Rae W. Meyer
              - Becky Murray
              - Joseph W. Pellicciotti
              - Steve Stich
              - Julie Kramer White

### Nuclear Regulatory Commission

              - Marissa G. Bailey
              - Michael X. Franovich
              - Robert Taylor

### Office of Management and Budget

              - Paul J. Shawcross

### Office of Personnel Management

              - Brenda Lee Roberts

### Small Business Administration

              - Julie Brill

### Social Security Administration

              - Wayne F. Lemon
              - Royce B. Min
              - C. Michelle Sanders Sparks

### Department of State

              - Rachel M. Arndt
              - Lawrence E. Bartlett
              - Roland F. de Marcellus
              - Steven F. Fabry
              - Michael G. Kozak
              - Philippe A. Lussier
              - Christina A. Sanford
              - Eric F. Stein
              - Kathryn A. Youel Page

### Department of Transportation

              - Julie Abraham
              - Maria S. Lefevre
              - Larry W. Minor
              - Yvette D. Taylor
              - Kevin M. Tokarski
              - Derrell E. Turner

### Department of the Treasury

              - Joseph Gioeli II
              - Robin L. Greenhouse
              - Patricia S. Pollard

### Department of Veterans Affairs

              - Angela Billups
              - Reginald W. Cummings
              - Karen Flaherty-Oxler
              - Scott R. Isaacks
              - Wendell E. Jones
              - Leroy Larkins, Jr.
              - Christopher J. McClellan

### Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General

              - Brent E. Arronte, Sr.

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## FY2023 Distinguished Senior Professional (SP) Recipients

### Department of Commerce

              - Ana M. Rey

### Department of Defense

#### Office of the Secretary of Defense

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              - Douglas S. Brungart

### Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General

              - Vicki L. Robinson

### National Aeronautics And Space Administration

              - Christopher J. Iannello

## FY2023 Meritorious Senior Professional (SP) Recipients

### Department of Agriculture

              - William P. Kustas

### Department of Commerce

              - Thomas Delworth

### Department of Defense

#### Department of The Army

              - Donna M. Joyce
              - Edward Joseph Perkins
              - Scott E. Schoenfeld

#### Department of The Navy

              - David Stenger

### Environmental Protection Agency

              - Bruce Rodan

### Department of Homeland Security

              - Richard Legault

### Department of the Interior

              - Tyler B. Coplen
              - David L. Mech
              - David J. Wald

### Department of Justice

              - James C. Bohling
              - Richard N. Goldberg

### National Aeronautics and Space Administration

              - Lee Daniel Feinberg
              - Patrick A. Troutman

### Department of the Treasury

              - William E. Blanchard
              - Martin E. Needle

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