Sethanne Howard

She most recently worked as the Chief of the Nautical Almanac Office at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC.

Howard attended the University of California, Davis from 1962 to 1965 and became the first woman to receive a Bachelor of Science degree (BS) in Physics from UCD.

She continued her education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1967 to 1974 and received a Master of Science (MS) degree in Nuclear physics.

Afterwards she worked as the Chief of the Nautical Almanac Office at the United States Naval Observatory from January 2000 until she retired in April 2004.

[1] Post-retirement, she has continued to serve as secretary for the Dynamical Division of Astronomy (DDA), from 2012 to 2015, and was the editor for the Journal for the Washington Academy of Sciences soliciting papers, reviewing, editing, and publishing from 2006 to the 2022.