List of Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership recipients is a compilation of

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government executives who have received the Jones Award from the

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s in fields such as

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, 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

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, Roger W. Jones (1908 – 1993), was a federal civil servant who helped direct the

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in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1978, Bernard Rosen, a former

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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,

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Deputy to the Commanding General, Communications Electronic Command, received the award on September 24, which marked the 25th anniversary of the award.

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