Linda Gage

Gage earned a master's degree in sociology from the University of California, Davis in 1974, specializing in demography.^[1][3] She belongs to the advisory board of the program in demographic and social analysis at the University of California, Irvine.^[4]

She served the Population Association of America as chair of its Committee on Population Statistics^[5] and in 1997, its Committee on Applied Demography,^[6] and also chaired the American Statistical Association Section on Government Statistics in 1997.^[7] She won the American Statistical Association Founders Award in 2005,^[8] and was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007.^[9]