Outstanding Handicapped Federal Employee of the Year

Outstanding Handicapped Federal Employee of the Year was an annual award given by the United States Civil Service Commission beginning in 1969, to recognize exceptional job performance "in spite of severely limiting physical factors.

[2] Prominent finalists for this award included chemist Odette L. Shotwell, Army engineer Alice Chancellor, and John Fales, founder and president of the Blinded American Veterans Foundation.

[3] A 1986 recipient, LeRoy MItchell, explained to a reporter that "If there's any benefit to these awards after all, besides an ego trip for me, it would be that potential employers would realize that most office-type work is the kind of vocation anyone can handle with severe handicaps.

Helm Kent H. McKnight[8] Eugene F. Murphy Richard S. Sharp Timothy A. Votaw Leon G. Wichmann Robert E. Wilkerson[9] Jayne Baker Spain Wallace E. Brooks Donald F. Cudahy Martha F. Elam Thomas F. Linde Edward A. Lusk John B. McGinley Bernard A. Perella Patricia Porembski Jack G. Lorts Arthur R. Bietry Lillian F. Freston James J. Hazuga Sr.[11] Edmund H. Inselmann[12] Paul L. Kyle Assunta Lilley Jack O. McSpadden Arthur H. Neill Jr. Gwenyth R. Vaughn Jayne Baker Spain Edwin C. Boyles William L. Brewster Frank G. Chituras Icy D. Deans Howard J. Garling Cheryl Lee Maloney Oral O. Miller John R. Stodgell Russell C. Williams This chart is currently incomplete, based mostly on announcements about individual finalists.

Billy West[15] Robert Adams Dennis Meyers Christopher Branigan Donna Pastore Alan K. "Scotty" Campbell Donald R. Ames Paul E. Bricker Jr.[20] Hilliard A. Carter Carol A. Edwards John J. Lacombe II Theodore A. Nichols Emily S. Ortt A. Leigh Phillips James R. Slagle Douglas Gower[22] Edward Sanders[23] Robert A. Bottenberg[25] Eva Ball[27] Martha Wells Usry[28]

A white woman seated in a wheelchair, with an eyepatch, glasses, wearing a corsage; her legs are both prosthetics; she is holding a plaque; kneeling next to her is another white woman, First Lady Pat Nixon, wearing a checked suit and smiling
Alice Chancellor and Pat Nixon , at the 1971 presentation of the Outstanding Handicapped Federal Employee of the Year award