J. Lynn Palmer

Palmer studied sociology as an undergraduate at Oklahoma State University, earned a bachelor's degree there in 1976, and stayed on for a master's degree in 1978. After being inspired by the statistics classes she took in her graduate program, she earned a second master's degree at Oklahoma State in statistics in 1980. She completed her Ph.D. in biometry in 1988, at the University of Texas School of Public Health.^[1]

She worked at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for many years, and in 2013 became director of programs for the American Statistical Association.^[1]

In 2010 Palmer was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.^[2] She became president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for the 2012 term.^[3] She is also an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.^[1]