- Raymond D. Fowler
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footnotes =Raymond D. Fowler, (born December 22, 1930) is an American
psychologist and Professor Emeritus of theUniversity of Alabama . He was president of theAmerican Psychological Association (1988) and subsequently served as APA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from 1989 to 2003Personal life
Raymond Fowler was born in Jasper, Alabama, a small coal mining town in the mountainous north central region of the state. His mother was a public school teacher. His father was an accountant and later director of the Alabama State Retirement System. Fowler is married to Sandra Mumford Fowler. They have a blended family of five children and five grandchildren.
Education
Fowler was educated in the public schools of Alabama. He received a BA degree in 1952 and an MA degree in 1953 in psychology from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He received his PhD in psychology with specialization in clinical psychology from the
Pennsylvania State University in 1957.Career
In 1956, Fowler joined the faculty of the University of Alabama, where he remained until 1986, when he was appointed professor emeritus. From 1965 to 1983, he served as department head. In 1987, he was appointed professor and head of the psychology department at the
University of Tennessee , where he served until June 1989, when he assumed his position as APA Chief Executive Officer.Fowler has been recognized for his work in the areas of substance abuse, criminal behavior and personality assessment. In the early 1960s, he developed a method of computer interpretation for the
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory .He was appointed in 1976 by Federal District Judge
Frank M. Johnson, Jr. to direct a court - ordered prison reform program that included assessing every prisoner in the Alabama prison system and recommending educational and rehabilitation programs for them.In 1976, Fowler was retained by the estate of
Howard R. Hughes , who had died without a will, to determine his mental status at various periods of his life.In 1998, Fowler was elected treasurer of the
International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) and a member of its Executive Committee. In 1998, he was Secretary General for the IAAP’s XXIV International Congress of Applied Psychology.At the state and national level, Dr. Fowler has been a member of the National Advisory Committee on Alcoholism of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He was a task force member of the President’s Commission on Mental Health and was an invited participant to the White House Conference on Health and the National Conference on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. He has been a consultant to the Director of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, the Veterans Administration, and the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. From 1965 to 1968 he was vice-president of the Council on Human Relations, the first biracial human rights group in Alabama.
American Psychological Association
Fowler served as APA treasurer (1982-1987, became its 97th president in 1997 and served as Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer from 1989 to 2003. cite journal | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = A Psi Chi Tribute to Raymond D. Fowler | journal = Eye on Psi Chi | volume = 7 | issue = 2 | pages = | publisher = The National Honor Society in Psychology | date = Winter 2003 | url = http://www.psichi.org/pubs/articles/article_356.asp | doi = | id = | accessdate = 2007-11-02 ]
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