NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
The NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal is awarded to US government employees only for notably outstanding leadership which affects technical or administrative programs of NASA. The leadership award may be given for an act of leadership, for sustained contributions based on a leader's effectiveness, for the productivity of the leader's program, or for the leader's demonstrated ability in developing the administrative or technical talents of other employees.
Recipients
1962
1964
1964
1970
- James C. Elms
- Robert L. Krieger
1972
- Leonard Jaffe
1973
- Donald D. Arabian
- Eugene H. Cagle
- William C. Keathley
- Edwin C. Kilgore
- Eugene F. Kranz
- Robert O. Piland
- Stanley R. Reinartz
- Philip C. Shaffer
1974
- John R. Casani
- M. P. Frank
- Robert A. Parker
1975
- Arnold D. Aldrich
- Robert O. Aller
- John P. Donnelly
- Don M. Hartung
- Seymour C. Himmel
- Walter J. Kapryan
- Robert N. Lindley
- Bernard Lubarsky
- Leslie H. Meredith
- John J. Neilon
- William H. Rock
- Robert J. Shafer
- Charles H. Terhune
1976
- Robert C. Baumann
- Paul C. Donnelly
- Albert G. Ferris
- James J. Kramer
- Charles T. Newman
- Joseph E. Robbins
- Miles Ross
- Michael J. Vaccaro
1977
- Manuel Bautista Aranda
- Loren G. Bright
- G. Calvin Broome
- Edmund A. Brummer
- Robert L. Crabtree
- John E. Duberg
- E. Barton Geer
- George N. Gianopulos
- Wayne R. Glenny
- Angelo Guastaferro
- Jack E. Harris
- Marshall S. Johnson
- Louis Kingsland
- Robert A. Leslie
- Peter T. Lyman
- William J. O'Neil
- George F. Pieper
- Ronald A. Ploszaj
- James E. Stitt
- Israel Taback
- Allen E. Wolfe
- Howard T. Wright
1978
- Eugenio Covacevich
- George C. Deutsch
- James A. Downey
- Edmond J. Golden
- Robert E. King
- John A. Manke
- John P. Reeder
- Geoffrey Robillard
- Nancy G. Roman
- Donald K. Slayton
- Fridtjof A. H. Speer
1981
1984
- H. Robert Lynn
- Richard Sade
- Robert E. Spearing
1992
- Marshall E. Alper
2000
2006
2007
- Michael Gazarik
- Susan Gorton
- Ajay Kumar
- Laurence Leavitt
- Brenton Weathered
2009
- Christian L. Hardcastle
2010
2011
2012
- Christa Peters-Lidard
- Anne R. Douglass
- Jason P. Dworkin
2014
- Donald M. Cornwell
2020
- Jason R. Adam
- Kenneth L. Ashford, Jr.
- Yvette Binford
- Robert W. Bobo
- Michael P. Bradford
- Donald G. Chavers
- Joseph C. Cianciola
- John P. Crisler
- Mike Gold
- Monica S. Hammond
- Roslin K. Hicks
- Randall C. Hopkins
- Richard T. Howard
- Gary L. Humphrey
- Ruth D. Jones
- Joe L. Leopard
- Jennifer B. McCaghren
- Joseph J. Pelfrey
- Lisa W. Smith
- David L. Thaxton
2021
- Wesley W. Deadrick
- Casey L. Swails
2024
- Nicholas G. Skytland
- Joel B. Walker
2025
- Justin C. Pane
- Zachary S. Roberts