Lucy P. Priddy is a Research Civil Engineer at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg. Her research is focused on expedient pavement repair, evaluation, and construction technologies and has developed new pavement repair techniques for airfield and roadway bomb craters. She is the author of numerous technical articles, papers, and reports and has served as liaison to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology during 2010-2011.
Priddy graduated from the University of Mississippi with her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 2002 and completed her master’s degree in civil engineering from Mississippi State University in 2005. She currently is completing her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. While at Ole Miss, she served as the president of the Engineering Student Body. She has continued to be active in the School of Engineering as a member of the Engineering Advisory Board from 2007-2012.
She serves the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Science as the chair of the Young Members Council and as member of the TRB Executive Board and Technical Activities Council. She is active with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) serving previously as president of the Vicksburg Branch and secretary of the Mississippi Section. ASCE awarded her the Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award in 2010, Mississippi Young Engineer in 2010, and as the national New Face in Civil Engineering in 2005.
Priddy is a member of Gibson Memorial United Methodist Church and personal hobbies include cooking, fishing and wine tasting.
