Susan Embretson received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1973.  She served as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Kansas for thirty years and then moved to the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she served as a faculty member for nineteen years.  She has received several awards for her research including the Career Award for Lifetime Achievement from the  Psychometric Society, the Saul Sells Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research from the  Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology, the Career Contribution to Educational Measurement Award from the National Council on Measurement in Education, and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (Lifetime Award) from the American Psychological Association, Division 5, Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics.  Although technically “retired” in August of 2023, she continues her research and teaches a yearly seminar on response processes and test validity at the University of Kansas.