Donna Jean Brogan (born July 12, 1939) is an American statistician and professor emeritus of statistics at Emory University.
[4] For four years, she was an assistant professor in the University of North Carolina in the School of Public Health, with a specialization in sample survey design and analysis.
[5] Since 1975, she has worked in freelance and active as a biostatistician, primarily in the specialty area of design and analysis of complex sample surveys.
As a woman in mathematics in the 1950s and 1960s, she suffered from many incidents of sex discrimination, including issues with unequal compensation from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Emory University, as well as a legal battle with the DeKalb County voter registrar, which involved the American Civil Liberties Union.
[7] In 1995, Iowa State University engraved her name on its Plaza of Heroines, which honors outstanding women graduates and faculty.