Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1944) Member of the International Statistics Institute (1949) Honorary member of the Société Adolphe Quetelet (1954) Honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (1959) University of North Carolina's Oliver Max Gardner Award (1959) International Award for Distinguished Service to Agriculture (awarded by Gamma Sigma Delta, 1960) Honorary Life Membership of the Biometric Society (1964) Gertrude Mary Cox (January 13, 1900 – October 17, 1978) was an American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University.

In 1939 Cox was appointed assistant professor of statistics at Iowa State College.

[6] In 1960 she took up her final post as Director of Statistics at the Research Triangle Institute in Durham, North Carolina.

[6] After retirement, then worked as a consultant to promote the development of statistical programs in Egypt and Thailand.

[9] The University of North Carolina system named her an O. Max Gardner Award recipient in 1959.

Iowa State College in 1958 awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Science in statistics.