Cody Eckhardt Selected As Vicksburg District Ops Chief
The Vicksburg Engineer District has selected Cody Eckhardt as chief of its Operations Division.
The Operations Division provides engineering and other professional services for flood damage reduction, navigation, hydropower production, recreation management, water supply, natural resource stewardship, environmental compliance, emergency operations and support for others. The district said those programs are managed to ensure consistent implementation of policy, guidance, procedures and programs as directed by higher headquarters in a way that meets or exceeds customer expectations.
Eckhardt comes to the role from the Mississippi Valley Division, where he served as deputy chief of the Operations and Regulatory Division and as the division’s Navigation Business Line manager. Before that assignment, he was the Mississippi Valley Division’s lock and dam subject matter expert.
Earlier in his career, Eckhardt served in the Vicksburg District’s River Operations Branch as acting chief of the Mat Sinking Unit, chief of the Dredging Unit, acting chief of the Navigation Unit and general engineer in the Navigation Unit. He also recently completed a 120-day detail as chief of operations for the St. Paul District and has served on detail as the Headquarters U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inland and coastal navigation program manager.
Eckhardt has been with the Corps since 2003, when he began his career with the Vicksburg District in the Water Control Section. He is a graduate of the inaugural class of ERDC University and the Mississippi Valley Division Emerging Leaders Program.
He earned a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Louisiana Tech University and is a licensed professional engineer in Mississippi.
A Vicksburg resident, Eckhardt is married to Kristi. They have two adult children.
The Vicksburg District covers a 68,000-square-mile area across parts of Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana. The district includes nine major river basins and about 460 miles of mainline Mississippi River levees. It is involved in hundreds of projects and employs about 1,100 people.
