Anne M. Leggett facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Anne M. Leggett
Born	May 28, 1947 Columbus, Ohio
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Ohio State University Yale University
Known for	Mathematical logic
Awards	Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Loyola University Chicago
Thesis	Maximal -r.e. sets and their complements (1973)
Doctoral advisor	Manuel Lerman

Anne Marie Leggett (born May 28, 1947) is an American mathematical logician. She is an associate professor emerita of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago.

Leggett is the editor-in-chief of the bi-monthly newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), a position she has held continuously since 1977. She has served on the Executive Committee of the AWM since 1977 and the AWM Policy and Advocacy Committee (2008-2015). With Bettye Anne Case, she is the editor of the book Complexities: Women in Mathematics (with Anne M. Leggett, Princeton University Press, 2005). Leggett received an Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for Complexities in 2006.

Education and career

Leggett did her undergraduate studies at Ohio State University, and completed her Ph.D. in 1973 at Yale University. Her dissertation, Maximal -r.e. sets and their complements, was supervised by Manuel Lerman.

She became a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, and was also on the faculties of Western Illinois University and the University of Texas at Austin. In 1982, she married another mathematician, Gerard McDonald (1946–2012), and in 1983, they both joined the Loyola University Chicago faculty.

Recognition

Leggett was chosen to be part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics, "for extraordinary contributions in promoting opportunities for women in the mathematical sciences through AWM and as a teacher and scholar; for her amazing and steady work as editor of the AWM Newsletter since 1977; and for her invaluable leadership and guidance."