Pendleton did her undergraduate studies at the University of South Alabama.[4]
As Olga Pendleton Hackney, she did her graduate studies at Emory University. She earned a master's degree in 1973 with the thesis Periodic Regression Revisited (supervised by Yick-Kwong Chan) and completed her Ph.D.
with the 1976 dissertation Hypothesis Testing In The General Linear Model.[4][5][6]
Before working at the Texas Transportation Institute, Pendleton became an assistant professor at Mississippi State University,[5] and then was associated with the University of Texas System Cancer Center, starting in 1980.[7] As Olga J. Hocking and later Olga J. Herman, she has taught at Northern Michigan University since 2011.[4]
^Hocking, R.R.; Pendleton, O.J. (January 1983), "The regression dilemma", Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 12 (5): 497–527, doi:10.1080/03610928308828477
^ abcAdjunct/Contingent Faculty, Northern Michigan University Mathematics and Computer Science, retrieved 2018-12-01