Collette-Lee

Collette Lee Wiki: Get To Know The Jeopardy Contestant

Collette Lee is a middle school math teacher from Paxton, Illinois. She is now appearing as a contestant on the 39th season of the popular quiz game show, Jeopardy!


On the new Jeopardy episode, she will compete with the previous episode’s champion Suresh Krishnan, a networking engineer from Suwanee, Georgia, and Kristine Rembach, a human rights lawyer from Ghent, New York.

Suresh marked his first win to end the three-day winning streak of Jared Watson on Tuesday’s episode.  Jared returned to the show as a champion with three-day winnings of $56,202.


Jared was leading with $12,800 after the Double Jeopardy! round and Suresh was behind him with $7600. However, Watson did not answer correctly in the final round and Suresh added $3000 to his score by giving the correct answer. Therefore, he became the winner with a total score of $10,600.

Meanwhile, Collette traveled 2,000 miles from her home to Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California to compete as a contestant on Jeopardy back in April. Regarding her experience on the show, she said, 

I got to be on my favorite show, so really I felt like a winner before I even stepped on the stage. It’s such a tiny, tiny group of people who get the chance to even play on ‘Jeopardy!’ The people I met on my tape date — my fellow contestants — were just an amazing group of people with just such different life experiences, but you felt like you were in just kind of an elite group. I felt lucky to be there. I felt honored to be there.

A lifelong fan of Jeopardy, she is planning to have a little watch party with friends, family, and colleagues. She will make her debut on the show on Wednesday, 7 June 2023.

Get to know Jeopardy contestant Collette Lee’s wiki, age, family, education, job, and personal life details here.

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Collette Lee Wiki, Age & Family

Lee is 38 years of age now. She was born Collette F Lee in the June of1985.

As per wiki, she was raised by her parents Ellen Lee and Tony Lee in Paxton, Illinois. The eldest of four, she is accompanied by a sister named Jackie and two brothers, Nolan and Ian Lee

All of her family members are Jeopardy fans and she used to watch the show with her grandparents, parents, and siblings. Her mother Ellen Lee tested to qualify for the show in the 1990s but did not make it onto the show. 

Collette Lee Educational Background

Collette attended  Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School in her hometown and graduated in the year 2003. She then went to the University of Illinois, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in History with a minor in Mathematics in 2007.

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Afterward, she moved to Chicago and enrolled at Roosevelt University to pursue her master’s degree. She graduated with a Master of Arts in Elementary Education in 2009.

What Is Collette Lee’s Job?

Collette now works as a seventh-grade math teacher at PBL Junior High School from where she graduated. She has been teaching maths since 2018.

Prior to that, she spent her time teaching overseas for nearly a decade. After completing her master’s, she went to South Korea and worked as an English teacher from 2010 to 2013. There, she taught at U-Su Language Academy and was a guest English teacher at EPIK (English Program in Korea).

Lee then completed a five-week residential program in Montañita, Ecuador, to earn certification in the teaching of the English language. She worked as an English as a foreign language instructor at the British School of Language in Quito, Ecuador from 2014 to 2015.

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Collette Lee during her visit to De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines in 2017. (Source: Collette’s Facebook)

Later, she went to the Philippines and taught English through a fellowship program at Aklan State University in Banga, Philippines for two years. She then moved to the United States in 2017.

Is Collette Lee Married?

Collette is a married lady who has been keeping the vows for several years. Her husband is Logan Beaver and the duo got married in 2016.

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Collette Lee and her husband Logan tied the wedding knot in Paxton, Illinois in 2016. (Source: Collette’s Facebook)

Together, the pair shares two kids from their marital relationship. They have a six-year-old son named Simon and a two-year-old daughter named Stella.