ANSI Announces Recipients of the 2009 Leadership and Service Awards

NEW YORK, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) announced today the recipients of its 2009 Leadership and
Service Awards. Recipients have been recognized for their significant
contributions to national and international standardization activities, as
well as an ongoing commitment to their industry, their nation, and the
enhancement of the global voluntary consensus standards system. ANSI will
honor these fifteen distinguished award recipients during an October 6
ceremony held in conjunction with World Standards Week 2009.

June Ling, associate executive director of standards and certification at
ASME, has been awarded the Astin-Polk International Standards Medal, which
honors distinguished service in promoting trade and understanding among
nations through the advancement, development, or administration of
international standardization, measurements, or certification.

Gregory Saunders, director of the Defense Standardization Program Office at
the U.S. Department of Defense, will receive the Howard Coonley Medal, which
recognizes an executive who has benefited the national economy through
voluntary standardization and conformity assessment and has given outstanding
support to standardization as a management tool.

David L. McQuaid, president of D. L. McQuaid & Associates, Inc., will receive
the Finegan Standards Medal, which honors an individual who has shown
extraordinary leadership in the development and application of voluntary
standards.

Scott Jameson, innovation strategist at Hewlett-Packard, will receive the
Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal, which recognizes outstanding
efforts to foster cooperation among the bodies involved in global IT
standardization.

John Rennie, retired vice president and manager of FM approvals at FM Global
Technologies, has been awarded the Elihu Thomson Electrotechnology Medal,
which honors an individual who has contributed in an exceptional, dedicated
way to the field of electrotechnology standardization, conformity assessment,
and related activities at the national and international levels.

Stephen Oksala, vice president of standards at the Society of Cable
Telecommunications Engineers, will receive the George S. Wham Leadership
Medal, which honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions to
the voluntary standardization community and provided long-term direction and
visionary qualities in support of the ANSI Federation.

Amanda Dixon and Martha Marrapese will both receive the Next Generation Award,
which honors individuals who have been engaged in standardization or
conformity assessment activities for less than eight years and who have,
during this time, demonstrated vision, leadership, dedication, and significant
contributions to their chosen field of activity.

Ms. Dixon is product manager at Tyco Electronics and Ms. Marrapese is a
partner at Keller and Heckman LLP.

Meritorious Service Awards

Seven individuals will receive the Meritorious Service Award in recognition of
their outstanding contributions to the U.S. voluntary standardization system.
Each has demonstrated outstanding service in enabling ANSI to attain the
objectives for which it was founded. The awardees are:
-- Scott Cedarquist, director of standards and technical activities at
the
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
-- Les Eastwood, director of architecture and standards strategy at
Motorola
-- David Ensor, senior fellow at RTI International
-- Susan Miller, president and CEO of the Alliance for Telecommunications
Industry Solutions
-- Earl Nied, program director of standards and IPR at the Intel
Corporation
-- Rolf Schneider, consultant

-- Michael Woodford, assistant vice president at the Air-Conditioning,
Heating, and Refrigeration Institute

These fifteen individuals will be honored at the 2009 ANSI Leadership and
Service Awards, a banquet and ceremony to be held on Tuesday evening, October
6, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Bethesda, MD.
For more information or to register, visit www.ansi.org/wsweek.

About ANSI
ANSI is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance U.S.
global competitiveness and the American quality of life by promoting,
facilitating, and safeguarding the integrity of the voluntary standardization
and conformity assessment system. Its membership is comprised of businesses,
professional societies and trade associations, standards developers,
government agencies, and consumer and labor organizations.

The Institute represents the diverse interests of more than 125,000 companies
and organizations and 3.5 million professionals worldwide.

The Institute is the official U.S. representative to the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) and, via the U.S. National Committee,
the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and is a U.S.
representative to the International Accreditation Forum (IAF). ANSI currently
has offices in New York City and Washington, DC. For more information about
ANSI, see www.ansi.org.

SOURCE American National Standards Institute

Elizabeth Neiman of ANSI, +1-212-642-4911