Katherine Antos. (Courtesy photo)
Katherine (Wallace) Antos is one of 34 federal workers nationwide who were named by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service as finalists for the 2011 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal awards. The service medals—or “Sammies,” as they are known—honor distinguished public servants in a variety of fields. The finalists, selected from more than 400 nominations, were honored at a breakfast on Capitol Hill as part of Public Service Recognition Week in early May, intended to recognize the efforts of federal, state and local government workers.
Antos, a 1998 Bromfield graduate and the daughter of Lucy Wallace of Orchard Hill and the late Jim Wallace, is the water quality team leader for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay office. She led the creation and evaluation of state plans to reduce pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, a key component of the 2010 EPA plan to restore the Bay’s water quality over the next 15 years. The Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, was one of the world’s first identified “marine dead zones.”
