HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – NASA engineer Jody A. Singer, a native of Hartselle, Ala., has been named Women’s Equality Day Supervisor of the Year.
The award was presented by the Team Redstone Federal Women’s Program, which includes the U.S. Army Garrison at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
Singer, who manages the Reusable Solid Rocket Booster Project in the Marshall Center’s Space Shuttle Propulsion Office, was nominated for her superb leadership and professionalism throughout her NASA career.
Singer, who has held her current position since 2002, is the first female project manager in the Space Shuttle Propulsion Office. She oversees the work of 74 civil servants and more than 2,000 contractors, ensuring the solid rocket boosters – the reusable twin rockets that flank the space shuttle external tank and help propel the shuttle to orbit – are prepared for safe flight. Singer also is in charge of guaranteeing the safety and viability of the solid rocket motors, the reusable solid-fuel casing for the boosters, through the Marshall Center’s critical ground test program.
Singer joined NASA in 1985 as an engineer in the professional intern program. She moved to the Space Shuttle Projects Office in 1986 to evaluate and track contractor hardware deliveries on the Space Shuttle Main Engine Project.
In 1990, she was named the program business manager for the Space Shuttle External Tank Project. She became assistant manager of that project in 1996 and deputy in 1998, and was promoted to deputy of the propulsion office in 2000.
Singer graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering.
During her career at NASA, Singer has been recognized with various honors. She received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2002, awarded for notably outstanding leadership that had a pronounced effect on the technical or administrative programs of NASA. In 1993, she was awarded an Exceptional Service Medal, NASA’s award for improved financial and resource management.
She participated in two NASA fellowships at Simmons College Graduate School of Management in Boston in 1996, and at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pa., in 2002. Fellowship participants are chosen for their management ability, work experience, achievements and leadership.
Singer was honored with a Women’s Equality Day award on Aug. 23 at the annual Women’s Equality Day luncheon and awards ceremony, hosted by the Team Redstone Federal Women’s Program. Team Redstone is an organization comprised of many federal agencies located offsite and on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.
The Women’s Equality Day awards recognize outstanding federal employees in professional, administrative and supervisory capacities. The event coincides with the anniversary of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
Singer and her husband have three children and live in Decatur, Ala.
