Linda J. Young is Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). She is an emphasis editor for the Statistical Journal of the IAOS and past editor of the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. 

She served on the committees selecting recipients of the 2022 Young Statisticians Paper Prize and the World Bank Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building awardees for the 2015 and 2017 (chair) WSCs. She is a member of the IASS 2021-2023 Nominating Committee. 

Linda served on the faculties of three U.S. land grant universities: Oklahoma State University, University of Nebraska, and the University of Florida before joining NASS. Her recent research has focused on the use of open-source data, capture-recapture methodology, and integrating survey and non-survey data to produce survey estimates. 

Linda has authored or co-authored three books and more than 100 publications in over 50 different journals, constituting a mixture of statistics and subject-matter journals. She has served in a broad range of offices within the professional statistical societies, including President of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society, Vice-President of the American Statistical Association, Treasurer of the International Biometric Society, and Chair of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. 

Linda is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and an elected member of the ISI.