Ford is the Principal Investigator for the HST Advanced Camera for Surveys, one of Hubble’s most successful cameras. Ford and G. Illingworth (ACS Deputy PI) oversaw and coordinated an international team of ~ 50 astronomers, students, and support staff that analyzed HST ACS observations and supporting X-ray and ground-based imaging and spectroscopy. To date, the team has published more than 111 refereed papers with more than 7,000 citations. Comparison of citations to ACS papers to all astronomy and astrophysics papers and to all HST papers published from 01/01/2003 to 07/26/2011 shows that ACS had a high impact on astronomy. The five most cited ACS papers are in the top 0.5% percentile of 199,971 astronomy and astrophysics papers, and in the top 1.8% percentile of 2906 HST papers. Ford and R. Brown organized and co-chaired the HST Strategy Panel, “A Strategy for Recovery,” that recommended to NASA how to correct the crippling spherical aberration found in Hubble’s primary mirror after launch. One of the Strategy Panel’s key recommendations was to build an instrument called COSTAR that would correct the spherical aberration for Hubble’s FOS and GHRS spectrographs and the European Faint Object Camera. Ford was the project scientist for COSTAR, and, with the Project Engineer Jim Crocker, oversaw the design and implementation of this highly successful instrument that was installed in Hubble during the first servicing mission. COSTAR restored the design performance of the spectrographs and the European camera, and helped restore NASA’s reputation and national pride. Ford was a Co-Investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Spectrograph, which Ford used for the first confirmation of a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy. Ford has more than thirty years of teaching experience as a professor at UCLA, the University of Michigan, and the Johns Hopkins University. Ford’s former students and Postdoctoral Fellows are now professors and researchers at institutions around the world.