Judith Covington

Judith Lynnette Covington is an American mathematician and mathematics educator who works as a professor of mathematics at Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSUS).^[1]

Education and career

Covington earned her Ph.D. in 1993 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, with a dissertation in topological group theory jointly supervised by Victor P. Schneider and Bradd Clark,^[2] and in the same year joined the LSUS faculty.^[3][4] In the mid-1990s, she became one of the first cohort of fellows of Project NExT, a professional development program of the Mathematical Association of America, and she has continued to be associated with Project NExT as part of its leadership team since then.^[4]

Beyond her work in teacher education at LSUS, she has also contributed to local mathematics education by founding the North Louisiana Math Teachers' Circle in 2010,^[5][4] and she was elected as the governor of the Louisiana–Mississippi section of the Mathematical Association of America in 2016.^[3][4]

Recognition

In 2004 Covington was named LSUS Elmer and Barbara Simon Distinguished Teaching Professor.^[6][4] The Louisiana–Mississippi section of the Mathematical Association of America gave her their Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012.^[4] In 2015 Covington was one of three winners of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America.^[3][4]