Virginia Lesser

Lesser completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1992 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, A Comparison of Periodic Survey Designs Employing Multi-Stage Sampling, was supervised by William D. Kalsbeek.^[2]

At Oregon State, she has been Director of the Survey Research Center since 1993.^[3] She became the first woman promoted to full professor in statistics at Oregon State, in 2009.^[4]

Lesser became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2010.^[5] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.^[6]