Biography:Lorraine Denby

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Short description: American statistician and Civil Air Patrol pilot

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

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

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

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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "PhD Alumni 1980-1989: 1984 PhD Alumni", Statistics (University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts), https://lsa.umich.edu/stats/alumni-friends/statistics-phd-alumni/phd-alumni-1980-1989.html, retrieved 2026-05-21 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "2022 Falcon Flight Graduates and Flight Instructors", NJWG Legislative Bulletin (NJWG Civil Air Patrol) 1 (3): p. 8, https://www.njwg.cap.gov/media/cms/Legislative_Bulletin_SpringSummer20_A35CF3156BAA1.pdf, retrieved 2026-05-20 
  3. ↑ "Statistics Alumni", Statistics (University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts), https://lsa.umich.edu/stats/alumni-friends/statistics-alumni.html, retrieved 2026-05-21 
  4. ↑ 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 
  5. ↑ Clark, Linda A.; Cleveland, William S.; Denby, Lorraine; Liu, Chuanhai (Spring 1999), "Competitive profiling displays", Marketing Research 11 (1): 24–33, https://www.proquest.com/openview/b8060fb335e6b451a7348bcee046abc8/1 
  6. ↑ 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 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Westhoven, William (May 26, 2017), "Civil Air Patrol volunteers as airborne terrorist 'targets'", Morristown Daily Record, https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/2017/05/26/civil-air-patrol-pilots-volunteer-airborne-targets/348676001/, retrieved 2026-05-21 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Blue Footed Booby", 47th Annual Air Race Classic, p. 31, https://www.airraceclassic.org/pdf/programs/ARCProgram_2024.pdf, retrieved 2026-05-21 
  9. ↑ ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, https://ww2.amstat.org/fellows/, retrieved 2026-05-21 
  10. ↑ Founders Award, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/your-career/awards/founders-award, retrieved 2026-05-20 
  11. ↑ "Avaya Earns Edison Award for Innovations Increasing Reliability and Resiliency in Collaboration and Communications Technology", Yahoo Finance, November 6, 2014, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/avaya-earns-edison-award-innovations-140200429.html, retrieved 2026-05-20 
  12. ↑ Attrino, Anthony G. (November 25, 2020), "Pilots escape serious injury when plane strikes tree, crash-lands at N.J. airport, cops say", NJ.com, https://www.nj.com/somerset/2020/11/pilots-escape-serious-injury-when-plane-strikes-tree-crash-lands-at-nj-airport-cops-say.html, retrieved 2026-05-20 
  13. ↑ Fisher, Joni M. (July 11, 2021), "With sass and class, women fly the 2021 Air Race Classic Air Derby", General Aviation News, https://generalaviationnews.com/2021/07/11/with-sass-and-class-women-fly-the-2021-air-race-classic-air-derby/, retrieved 2026-05-20 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Myziea, Amy (November–December 2022), "Girls in Aviation Day (GIAD)", Ninety-Nines: 26, https://www.ninety-nines.org/pdf/newsmagazine/20221112.pdf, retrieved 2026-05-20 



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