Colonel Timothy P. Hudson is a native of Allentown, PA and is a 2001 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics. In addition to basic and advance military schooling, he possesses a Master of Science in Operations Research from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, and a Master of Strategic Studies, U.S. Army War College.
Colonel Hudson began his military career with B Company, 4th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado. As a platoon leader, he deployed to Balad, Samara, and Kirkuk, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2003 to 2004. Following the Captains Career Course, he deployed again as a company commander with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division to Mosul, Iraq, from 2006 to 2007.
Following company command and graduate school, he instructed Mathematics at the United States Military Academy from 2010 to 2012. In 2013, he joined the 307th Engineer Battalion (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, NC as the operations officer and deployed with the battalion to Regional Command Southwest, Helmand Province, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Upon returning from Afghanistan, he served as the Brigade Operations Officer for 20th Engineer Brigade (Combat), XVIIIth Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, NC from 2014 to 2015. Following his assignment at Fort Bragg, Colonel Hudson was honored to join the Wolfpack Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Battalion at North Carolina State University as the Professor of Military Science from 2015 to 2017.
Moving from North Carolina to Texas, Colonel Hudson took command of the 20th Engineer Battalion at Fort Hood in 2017 and deployed the battalion to Afghanistan in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in 2018, where the Battalion served as the Route Clearance Task Force in support of troops across Afghanistan. Following command, Colonel Hudson attended the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA, and then transitioned to a joint assignment at U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) in Colorado Springs, CO, as the Deputy J4 for Engineering and Logistics.