She is a 1963 graduate of Southeast High School in Wichita, Kansas. She graduated with a degree in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1967 and earned a Ph.D. in behavioural genetics from Stanford University in 1976.
She is a 1963 graduate of Southeast High School in Wichita, Kansas, who later pursued higher education, earning a degree in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1967 and eventually completing her doctoral studies in Behavioural Genetics from Stanford University in 1976.