Joseph Lawson Hodges Jr. (April 10, 1922 – March 1, 2000) was a statistician.
He obtained a Ph.D. in 1949 at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined the statistics faculty there.
Born in 1922 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Hodges grew up in Phoenix, Arizona.
In the summer of 1944 he joined an Operations analysis group and after some training served in that capacity (together with his fellow budding statisticians Erich Leo Lehmann and George Nicholson) with the Twentieth Air Force on Harmon Air Force Base, Guam.
He then joined the new statistics program at Berkeley and remained there for the rest of his career.