Jim Tattersall received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1963, a Master's degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1965, and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma in 1971. On a number of occasions he has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University. In 1991, he spent six months as a visiting mathematician at the American Mathematical Society. In 1995-1996, he spent eighteen months as a visiting professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was given the Award for Distinguished Service (1992) and the Award and for Distinguished College Teaching (1997) from the Northeastern Section of the MAA. He has served as President of Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Archivist/Historian of NES/MAA, and Associate Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America. His book on number theory was published by Cambridge University Press.