Jon S. Bailey

Jon S. Bailey received his PhD from the University of Kansas and is currently Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Florida State University, where he was on the graduate faculty for thirty-eight years and produced a record sixty-three PhDs. He is also codirector of the FSU Panama City Masters Program in Applied Behavior Analysis, which has been cited in the New York Times as one of the top applied behavior analysis programs in the country.

He is a board-certified behavior analyst and is a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis. He is past president of the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts and is secretary/treasurer and program chair of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis, which he founded in 1980. In 2005, Dr. Bailey received the Distinguished Service to Behavior Analysis Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis.