Gertrude Mary Cox was born on January 13, 1990 in Dayton, Iowa. She was a great achiever. She was also a hard working woman who had major goals in her life. She was a Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. Founder of the Department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University, the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, and the Statistics Research Division of the Research Triangle Institute. President of the American Statistical Association (1956). In 1949 became the first female elected into the International Statistical Institute. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975. She died October 17, 1978.