Katherine J. Thompson

Katherine Jenny Thompson is a statistician in the United States Census Bureau, where she is Methodology Director of Complex Survey Methods and Analysis Group in the Economic Statistical Methods Division.

Thompson began her undergraduate studies as an English major, but switched to mathematics after finding her courses in that subject more interesting. She joined the Census Bureau directly from college, and later earned a graduate degree in applied statistics through part-time study.

Thompson was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017. She is the president-elect, for the 2020 term, of the American Statistical Association's Section on Government Statistics.