Lorraine Denby
Lorraine Denby is a retired American statistician, formerly affiliated with Bell Labs and Avaya,[1] and a lieutenant colonel in the Civil Air Patrol.[2]
Education and career
[edit]Denby has a 1971 master's degree in statistics from the University of Michigan.[3] She listed her affiliation with Bell Labs on statistics publications with dates ranging from 1976[4] to 1999.[5] During this time, she also completed a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Michigan in 1984, with the dissertation Smooth Regression Functions (Partial Residual Plots) supervised by Edward D. Rothman.[1] By 2002, she was working for Avaya Labs Research;[6] she has subsequently retired.[1][7] In her retirement, she consults as a principal for Murray Hill Data Science.[8]
Professional recognition
[edit]Denby was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1991.[9] She was one of three 1997 recipients of the American Statistical Association Founders Award for distinguished service to the association.[10]
In 2014, she was part of a team of three researchers at Avaya that won the Edison Award of the R&D Council of New Jersey, for their patented research on localizing problems in networks carrying multimedia data.[11]
Aviation
[edit]As a teenager in Michigan in 1967, Denby was selected to become a cadet in the Civil Air Patrol through a program that chose one participant from each US state for a month of flight training; she was the only girl in the program.[7] She continues to serve in the Civil Air Patrol as a lieutenant colonel, as a flight instructor, as NJ Wing Emergency Services Training Officer, and as a pilot and surrogate target in training exercises.[2][7][8]
In 2020, she was involved in a flight incident while training a student pilot, when their plane clipped a tree and crash-landed.[12] She was part of a three-person team that competed in a one-day women's air derby in 2021, placing seventh.[13] She was both a director of and a competitor in the 2024 Air Race Classic, a transcontinental air race for female pilots.[8] Her personal airplane is a Piper Arrow,[14] and she is also active in the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots.[8][14]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "PhD Alumni 1980-1989: 1984 PhD Alumni", Statistics, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, retrieved 2026-05-21
- ^ a b "2022 Falcon Flight Graduates and Flight Instructors" (PDF), NJWG Legislative Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 3, NJWG Civil Air Patrol, p. 8, retrieved 2026-05-20
- ^ "Statistics Alumni", Statistics, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, retrieved 2026-05-21
- ^ Beck, Betty; Denby, Lorraine; M. Landwehr, James (January 1976), "Statistics in the elementary school", Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 5 (10): 883–894, doi:10.1080/03610927608827406
- ^ Clark, Linda A.; Cleveland, William S.; Denby, Lorraine; Liu, Chuanhai (Spring 1999), "Competitive profiling displays", Marketing Research, 11 (1): 24–33
- ^ Bearden, M.; Denby, L.; Karacali, B.; Meloche, J.; Stott, D.T. (2002), "Assessing network readiness for IP telephony", 2002 IEEE International Conference on Communications. Conference Proceedings. ICC 2002, IEEE, pp. 2568–2572, doi:10.1109/icc.2002.997306, ISBN 0-7803-7400-2
- ^ a b c Westhoven, William (May 26, 2017), "Civil Air Patrol volunteers as airborne terrorist 'targets'", Morristown Daily Record, retrieved 2026-05-21
- ^ a b c d "Blue Footed Booby", 47th Annual Air Race Classic (PDF), p. 31, retrieved 2026-05-21
- ^ ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2026-05-21
- ^ Founders Award, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2026-05-20
- ^ "Avaya Earns Edison Award for Innovations Increasing Reliability and Resiliency in Collaboration and Communications Technology", Yahoo Finance, November 6, 2014, retrieved 2026-05-20
- ^ Attrino, Anthony G. (November 25, 2020), "Pilots escape serious injury when plane strikes tree, crash-lands at N.J. airport, cops say", NJ.com, retrieved 2026-05-20
- ^ Fisher, Joni M. (July 11, 2021), "With sass and class, women fly the 2021 Air Race Classic Air Derby", General Aviation News, retrieved 2026-05-20
- ^ a b Myziea, Amy (November–December 2022), "Girls in Aviation Day (GIAD)" (PDF), Ninety-Nines, p. 26, retrieved 2026-05-20
