Joseph Lee Rodgers earned his PhD in quantitative psychology, with a minor in biostatistics, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. He worked at the University of Oklahoma from 1981 to 2012, where he is George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus. He joined the Quantitative Methods program in Peabody College at Vanderbilt in 2012. He retired from that program in 2021 and is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt. He has published three co-authored books, three edited books, and over 200 journal articles/book chapters in Statistics/Quantitative Methods, Psychology, Demography, Behavior Genetics, and related research literature. He has also had a career commitment to classroom teaching and has written many articles in the statistics and quantitative methods literature that are didactic teaching-oriented articles.