Eligibility for the scholarship is limited to the sons, daughters or legally adopted children of highway workers who die or have become permanently disabled in roadway work zone accidents. The applicant’s parent must have been employed by a transportation construction firm or a transportation public agency at the time of his or her death or disabling injury. 

• 1st Year
• 2nd Year
• 3rd Year
• 4th Year

• US Citizen
• Permanent Resident
• International or Other Visa Status
• Undocumented

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association-Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) “Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship Program” provides financial assistance to help the sons, daughters or legally adopted children of highway worker skilled or permanently disabled in the line of duty pursue post-high school education. Scholarships are awarded annually. The scholarship program was launched in October 1999 through a generous gift from the families of past ARTBA chairmen Jack (1991) and Stan (1999) Lanford of Roanoke, Virginia. Today, it is supported by contributions from highway construction industry executives and firms, state transportation groups, and labor organizations.

Information on how to apply to the program can be found online.

For addtiional information, Contact ARTBA’s Eileen Houlihan at 202.683.1019 or at ehoulihan@artba.org.

Kashae Williams
Project Manager
ARTBA - TDF
1219 28th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
Ph: 202.289.4434 ext.109
Fax: 202.289.4435
Email: kwilliams@artba.org