She was editor-in-chief of Technometrics from 1999 to 2001,[1] and was president of the International Association for Statistical Computing for 2011–2013.
[2] In 2017 she was elected president of the American Statistical Association for the 2019 term.
[3][4] She completed her PhD in statistics from Princeton University in 1979 under the supervision of John Tukey; her dissertation was Robust Confidence Intervals for the One- and Two- Sample Problem.
She has also worked for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Hewlett Packard, the National Cancer Institute, the University of Colorado Denver, and Oregon State University.
[3][4] Kafadar is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (since 1994) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (2007).