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.

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

 * John R. Casani

1984

 * H. Robert Lynn
 * Richard Sade
 * Robert E. Spearing

1992

 * Marshall E. Alper

2000

 * Eileen M. Collins

2006

 * Joel S. Levine

2007

 * Michael Gazarik
 * Susan Gorton
 * Ajay Kumar
 * Laurence Leavitt
 * Brenton Weathered

2009

 * Christian L. Hardcastle

2010

 * Kenneth M. Ford

2011

 * Julie A. Robinson (biologist)

2012

 * Christa Peters-Lidard
 * Anne R. Douglass

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
 * 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

2024

 * Nicholas G. Skytland
 * Joel B. Walker