Government Executive email GovExec Daily: The View From a Federal Employee Fed Upward host Love Rutledge joins the podcast to discuss her civil service career and how feds feel about how the public sees them. The federal civil service is huge and varied, with federal employees in jobs across agencies as different as the Justice Department and the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. Love Rutledge is the host of the Fed Upward podcast and a federal employee at the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Readiness. She’s joined the podcast talk about what it's like being a public servant during Public Service Recognition Week.