Masters Degree from the University of Chicago.

Ph.D from Harvard University.

• In 1953, Lehmer started work at the University of Washington as a Visiting Professor of Anthropology.
• In 1961 he got job and remained a part of the staff of Dana College, Blair, Nebraska where he later became chief of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.
• In 1972 he published Introduction to Middle Missouri Archaeology and was assembling a educational ecology of the Hidatsu Indians when a car accident perpetually changed his life.
• Donald Lehmer will forever be remembered for his wide plains research and his unending dedication to his work.