Roger Ellis Millsap (1954-2014)

Roger Ellis Millsap died suddenly May 7, 2014, in Tempe, Arizona, after a brief hospitalization. Roger contributed to psychology through leading-edge scholarship on measurement theory and latent variable modeling, as a gifted educator, and in several leadership roles. Roger served as a consulting editor to Applied Psychological Measurement and Structural Equation Modeling, as well as book review editor for Applied Psychological Measurement (1991–1998). He served as editor of Multivariate Behavioral Research (MBR, 1996–2006) and editor of Psychometrika (2007–2014). He is credited with strengthening both journals during his tenure as editor. Roger served as president of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP, 2001–2002), Division 5 of the American Psychological Association (then Measurement, Evaluation, & Statistics, 2004–2005), and the Psychometric Society in 2006–2007. Roger presented 70 papers between 1984 and 2014. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)