Each year, the president recognizes an elite group of career
members of the Senior Executive Service, senior-level, and scientific and professional
corps with this award. To qualify, recipients must have demonstrated exceptional
leadership, accomplishments and service over an extended period of time. The president awards the Meritorious Executive rank, which
focus on leadership and results, to only 5 percent of the SES each year. The
federal government chooses these award recipients through a rigorous selection process: First, agency heads nominate eligible
employees, then boards comprising private citizens evaluate those nominations,
and finally the president designates the winners. Cruickshank has been with MMS for 20 years. He served as associate
director for Policy and Management Improvement before MMS appointed him to deputy
director in 2002. As deputy director, Cruickshank assists the MMS director in administering
the agency’s mineral-resource programs. This includes overseeing the management of energy and
mineral resources on the nation’s Outer Continental Shelf and the collection
and distribution of revenues from leases on Federal and Indian lands. Cruickshank received a bachelor
of arts in geological sciences from
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