Born on Feb. 19, 1957 in the St. Louis, Missouri area. She attended the University of Missouri with the goal of becoming a veterinarian, but graduated instead with an undergraduate degree in animal sciences. She found work in Nebraska at the USDA Animal Research Center, dealing with "everything to do with sheep." She followed her husband Tom Nash to Kansas State where he worked on his masters degree. Their next stop was southern Illinois, where Marilyn did database entry on her husband's sheep research flock. Following that, they moved to Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Ph. D. program in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, receiving a degree in Epidemiology in 1999. Marilyn began working at the National Soybean Research Laboratory in 1996, where she currently works as a program coordinator, and searches for new ways to utilize soybean products for the human diet.
From the description of An interview with Marilyn Nash / Marilyn Nash ; Mark R. DePue, interviewer. 2008. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 434110020
