Henry L. Roediger, III is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He graduated as valedictorian and commander of the corps of cadets from Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia in 1965 and then attended Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, graduating magna cum laudae with a B.A in Psychology in 1969. Roediger went on to graduate school at Yale University and received his Ph.D. in 1973. Roediger became an assistant professor at Purdue University in 1973 and spent fifteen very good years on the faculty there, except for three years as visiting professor at the University of Toronto. In 1988 he was appointed Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Psychology at Rice University, and he spent eight profitable years in Houston. In 1996 he left for Washington University in St. Louis, where he became Chair of the Department of Psychology until stepping down in 2004. That same year he was appointed Dean of Academic Planning in Arts and Sciences, a position he held for ten years with 4 deans. Roediger’s research has centered on human learning and memory and he has published on many different topics within this area. He has published over 300 articles and chapters on various aspects of memory. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Organization for Research and Development, the National Institute of Aging, the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Dr. Roediger has served many journals in an editorial capacity. He now serves as a Psychology Editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Over the years Dr. Roediger has co-authored three textbooks that have been through a combined 23 editions. Dr. Roediger was President of the American Psychological Society (now the Association for Psychological Science) in 2003-2004. Previously, he was elected to the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society (1986-1991) and served as its Chair in 1989-1990. He was also President of the Midwestern Psychological Association (1992-1993), as well as the Experimental Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. He served as Chair of Section J (Psychology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018-2019. Roediger has mentored 30 students for their M.A. and/or Ph.D. over the years, many of whom have gone on to distinguished careers in academia. He has also mentored 15 postdoctoral fellows who have also become successful. He received the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the Washington University Graduate Student Association in 2008, as well as the APS Lifetime Mentor Award in 2016. Roediger is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Canadian Psychological Association. In 1994-1995 he held a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2012 he received the William James Award from APS, and in 2016 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science. In 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. According to a 1996 study by the Institute of Scientific Information, Roediger’s papers had the greatest impact (measured by their average number of citations) in the field of Psychology for the five-year period from 1990-1994. In 2005 he was named to the Institute of Scientific Information’s list of Highly Cited Researchers in Psychology and Psychiatry. His work has received about 57,000 citations in Google Scholar.