Toni Mumford is the Deputy Associate Administrator for Management for NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate.[1] She works at Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Toni Mumford
Women@NASA Interview (2011)
Nationality (legal)American
EmployerNASA
TitleDeputy Associate Administrator for Management for NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate

Personal life edit

Mumford's mother worked at NASA, starting at a prior organization which joined the new Agency in 1958, and retired in 1978.[2]

Mumford is a breast cancer survivor and an active volunteer with the American Cancer Society. She participates in the annual Relay for Life fundraising event.[2]

Career edit

Mumford's career with the federal government started in the U.S. Department of Education as a clerk/typist, GS-2, in July 1978.[2]

NASA edit

In April 1980, Mumford joined NASA's Office of Space Transportation Systems, which was developing of the Space Shuttle, in a secretarial position. Over the next 26 years, she worked multiple positions with different organizations at NASA Headquarters and at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.[2]

In 2011, she was serving as the Assistant Associate Administrator (AAA) for the Resources Management and Analysis Office, Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD), working with a team to manage about a third of NASA's annual budget (around $8 billion at the time).[2] In a 2011 NASA reorganization, the Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) combined with the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate to form the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate.[3]

Mumford was then the Director of the HEO Resources Management Office.[4][5] She became the Deputy AA for Policy & Plans for HEO around 2015.[6]

In the 2020 reorganization of HEO, she became the Deputy Associate Administrator for Management, serving under Kathy Lueders.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "About the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate". NASA. 29 April 2015. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Toni Mumford". Women@NASA. NASA. 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  3. ^ "HUMAN EXPLORATION AND OPERATIONS 2014". NASA SBIR/STTR. NASA. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  4. ^ Mumford, Toni (March 2012). "Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate FY 2013 Budget Overview" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  5. ^ Mumford, Toni (3 March 2016). "Budget Status for NASA Advisory Council Human Exploration and Operations Committee" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  6. ^ "About the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate". NASA. 29 April 2015. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved June 30, 2021.