Monti is the daughter of Katherine (Kit) Buckley Nuckolls, the former chair of pediatric nursing at Yale University. She graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1971, and married sociologist Daniel J. Monti Jr.,[1] and completed a Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1975 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[2] Her dissertation, The Locally Optimal Combination of Certain Multivariate Test Statistics, was supervised by Pranab K. Sen.[3]
She became a faculty member at the University of Missouri–St. Louis but moved to industry, working for pet food company Ralston Purina, medical testing company Ciba-Corning Diagnostics, drug design company Astra Pharmaceuticals, and statistical contracting firm Rho. She retired in 2017.[2]
Through her career, Monti was active in the American Statistical Association, including stints as chair of the Biopharmaceutical Section and president of the Boston Chapter. She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007, and in 2014 the Boston Chapter gave her their Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award.[2]
