Background
Vandergriff, Linda Joyce was born on July 20, 1956 in Sugar Creek, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Ronald and Joyce Dawbarn.
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Linda Joyce Vandergriff
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Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics, U. Tennessee, 1979; postgraduate, U. Tennessee, Tullahoma, 1979-1980; postgraduate, University of Michigan, 1981; postgraduate, University of California, Los Angeles, 1982; postgraduate, Georgia Institute Technology, 1982; Master of Science in Engineering Electro-Optics, Southeastern Institute Technology, 1986; postgraduate, Southeastern Institute Technology, since 1988.
Career
Assistant librarian, Coffee County Public Library, Manchester, Tennessee, 1973-1974; cooperative engineer, Sverdrup/Agricultural Research Organization Inc., Tullahoma, 1974-1978; junior engineer, Sverdrup/Agricultural Research Organization Inc., Tullahoma, 1979-1981; assistant instructor, U. Tennessee, Knoxville, 1978-1979; junior engineer, Calspan, Tullahoma, 1981; member technical staff, General Research Corporation, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 1981-1983; member technical staff, General Research Corporation, Huntsville, Alabama, 1983-1986; engineering physicist, Sparta Inc., Huntsville, 1986-1988; GSTS chief engineer, systems engineer, General Electric Aerospace, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, 1988-1993; director electro-optics research center, Science Applications International Corporation, Torrance, California, since 1993. Sub-chair tracking panel Strategic Defense Initiative Organisation, 1992-1993.
Achievements
Membership
Director youth camp Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints (Mormons), Tennessee and Ky.Dists., 1986-1987, director Family Camp, 1988-1989, historian, solicitor, 1987-1989, elder, since 1988. Pastor Philadelphia Congregation, 1993, Los Angeles Pastoral Unit, 1994-1995. Member NAFE, American Defense Preparedness Association, Optical Society American, International Society for Optical Engineering, Sigma Pi Sigma.
Connections
Married Glenn Reid Vandergriff, December 11, 1976.
