John Stufken received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986 and his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in 1982 and 1979. Currently he is Professor and Head, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia and in 2003-2004 he served as Program Director for Statistics, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation. Prior to coming to Georgia he was Professor in the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University (1997-2002).  He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2001), an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (2005) and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2000).  In 2004, Dr. Stufken became the Executive Editor of the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, where has previously served as Associate Editor. Since 2003, he served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and, between 1993 and 2001, he served as an Associate Editor of Communications in Statistics.  He has published a book titled Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications, Springer Series in Statistic, and over 50 refereed publications.