The phrase "a distinguished servant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has served in a notable or respected capacity, often in a formal or professional context.
Example: "The organization honored a distinguished servant of the community for their years of dedicated service."
Alternatives: "an esteemed servant" or "a respected servant".
It was a shabby way to treat a distinguished public servant.
He praised Ken Livingstone, "a distinguished public servant", the man who truly spoke for London after the 7/7 bomb attacks.
The idea that this alleged misdeed justifies such vindictive action against a distinguished public servant is laughable.
A distinguished public servant, respected diplomat, passionate environmentalist and beloved vice chairman of The Aspen Institute, Henry dedicated his life to furthering the principles of true leadership.
Putting Ofcom in charge of regulating the BBC is a great risk: its present incumbent, a distinguished civil servant, may be no threat.
Rejecting him would be a big mistake, for it would both flog a distinguished public servant who helped avert catastrophe and turn the Fed chairmanship into yet another political football.
The former head of Scotland Yard, who was labelled "Labour's favourite cop" during his tenure, was nominated by the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a "distinguished public servant".
But he has also accused Bob Kerrey, a distinguished public servant and decorated military veteran, of war crimes, using evidence that would never convict him in a court of law.
$6$$)EDELSTEIN--Julius C.C. Lehman College mourns the death of Julius C.C. Edelstein, a distinguished public servant: Journalist; Navy Veteran of WWII; Advisor to the first President of the Philippines; Executive Assistant, Chief of Legislative Staff and Political Liaison to the late Senator Herbert H. Lehman, our institution's namesake.
Best known in this country as the author of a large number of witty and provocative books - and as the Reith lecturer in 1966 - Galbraith was professor of economics at Harvard University from 1949 until his retirement in 1975, but was equally well known in the US as a distinguished civil servant and longtime, tireless adviser and campaigner for liberal Democrats and their causes.
