Jane F. Gentleman

She was the daughter of Joseph Forer, an American attorney known for his progressive stances on segregation and political discrimination, and Florence Roberts, a public school teacher and viola player.

[14] In 1962, Gentleman started her career as a statistical programmer at the University of Chicago's Economics department and School of Business.

In 1965, she conducted research as an associate member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories (AT&T) in Murray Hill, New Jersey through 1968.

[citation needed] In 2002, Gentleman received the first-ever "Janet L. Norwood Award For Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences.

[9] Mary E. Thompson (later, also president of the Statistical Society of Canada) has called Gentleman "a fine role model and mentor.

Gentleman studied and then taught at the University of Waterloo (here, the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre).
In the mid-1960s, Gentleman worked at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey .