Lynnette received her BS in biology from Buena Vista University (Storm Lake, Iowa), her MS in biology from Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond: Thesis: Metabolic rate of ringneck snakes (Diadophis punctatus edwardsi)) and her PhD in zoology at the University of Oklahoma (Norman: Dissertation: Thermoregulatory behavior of the collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)). She spent a year as a post-doc in a biochemistry lab at Auburn University (Alabama: Department of Physiology and Pharmacology – Research dealt with enzyme kinetics). She was an Assistant Professor of Biology at Maryville College in Tennessee (Maryville) for five years. Lynnette is now Professor of Biology at Emporia State University (Kansas), where she has served as a major professor and a member of numerous graduate student committees. Lynnette studies the environmental physiology of amphibians and reptiles. She is a member board member of the Kansas Academy of Science, a member as well as editorial board member and President (2018) of the Kansas Herpetological Society, a member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, a member and board member of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, a member and past treasurer of the Herpetologist’s League and former member of the Oklahoma Herpetological Society.