GCN Awards: Previous government executives of the year
Connecting state and local government leaders
2009
Civilian Executive of the Year
Martha A. Dorris
Deputy Associate Administrator
Office of Citizen Services and Communications
General Services Administration
Defense Executive of the Year
Robert Carey
Chief Information Officer
Department of the Navy
2008
Defense Executive of the Year
Kenneth Heitkamp
Assistant chief information officer for life cycle management
Air Force
Civilian Executive of the Year
Molly O'Neil
CIO
Environmental Protection Agency
2007
Defense Executive of the Year
Gen. James Cartwright
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Civilian Executive of the Year
John Johnson
GSA
2006
Civilian Executive of the Year
Bruce R. James
Public Printer of the United States and CEO
Government Printing Office
Defense Executive of the Year
Brig. Gen. Susan S. Lawrence
Director of Command, Control, Communications and Computers, J-6
Central Command, U.S. Army
2005
Civilian
James A. Williams
Director, U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program
Homeland Security Department
Defense
David M. Wennergren
Chief Information Officer
Department of the Navy
2004
Civilian
Kimberly T. Nelson
Chief Information Officer
Environmental Protection Agency
Defense
Dawn C. Meyerriecks
Former Chief Technology Officer
Defense Information Systems Agency
2003
Civilian
Steven I. Cooper
Chief Information Officer
Homeland Security Department
Defense
Lt. Gen. Steve Boutelle
Department of the Army
2002
Civilian
Jack Brooks
Former Chairman, Government Operations Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
Defense
Lt. Gen. Emmett Paige Jr. (Ret.)
Vice President of DOD Operations
Lockheed Information Technology
2001
Jackie Fletcher
Associate Director and CIO
U.S. Mint
Joseph R. Cipriano
Program Executive Officer for Information Technology and Enterprise Acquisition Manager for Information Technology
U.S. Navy
2000
James J. Jasinski
Program Manager, Fingerprint ID Systems
Federal Bureau of Investigation
David Borland
Vice Director, Information Systems C4
Department of the Army
1999
Kathleen Adams
Assistant Deputy Commissioner
Social Security Administration
Marvin Langston, Ph.D.
Deputy Chief Information Officer
Defense Department
1998
Anne F. Thompson Reed
Chief Information Officer
Agriculture Department
Navy Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski
President
Naval War College
1997
Frank P. Pugliese Jr.
Commissioner, Federal Supply Service
General Services Administration
Lt. Gen. Douglas D. Buchholz
Director, C4 Systems
Joint Chiefs of Staff
1996
Stephen Meltzer
Director
Federal Computer Acquisition Center
Navy Rear Adm. John A. Gauss
Deputy Director
Defense Information Systems Agency
1995
Rep. Newt Gingrich
Speaker
U.S. House of Representatives
1994
Henry H. Philcox
Chief Information Officer
Internal Revenue Service
Cynthia Kendall
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Defense Department
1993
Renato A. DiPentima, Ph.D.
Deputy Commissioner, Systems
Social Security Administration
Army Lt. Gen. Alonzo Short
Director, Defense Information Systems
General Services Administration
1992
Paul A. Strassmann
Director of Defense Information
1991
Richard G. Austin
Administrator
General Services Administration
1990
Donald J. Atwood
Deputy Secretary
Defense Department
1989
Army Lt. Gen. John T. Myers
Director
Defense Communications Agency
1988
Joseph R. Wright Jr.
Director
Office of Management and Budget
1987
Navy Rear Adm. Harry S. Quast
Director
Information Resources Management
1986
Rep. Frank Horton
Ranking Minority Member
Government Operations Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
Donald C. Latham
Assistant secretary for C3I
Defense Department
1985
Joseph R. Wright
Deputy Director
Office of Management and Budget
Rep. Charlie Rose
U.S. House of Representatives
James H. Burrows
Director
Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology
1984
Frank J. Carr
Commissioner
Information Resources Management Service
General Services Administration
Rep. Jack Brooks
Chairman
Government Operations Committee
House of Representatives
Ralph Bledsoe, Ph.D.
Special Assistant to the President
Office of Policy Development
The White House