June Downey

June Downey
Born	(1875-07-13)July 13, 1875 Laramie, Wyoming
Died	October 11, 1932(1932-10-11) (aged 57) Trenton, New Jersey
Resting place	Green Hill Cemetery, Laramie, Wyoming
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Wyoming
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	University of Wyoming
Thesis	Control Processes in Modified Handwriting (1908)

June Etta Downey (July 13, 1875 – October 11, 1932) was an American psychologist who studied personality and handwriting. Downey was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming, where she received her degree in Greek and Latin from the University of Wyoming.^[1] Throughout her life Downey wrote seven books and over seventy articles. Included in this work, Downey developed the Individual Will-Temperament Test, which was one of the first tests to evaluate character traits separately from intellectual capacity and the first to use psychographic methods for interpretation.^[2]

In addition to her many published works, Downey held several prestigious positions. She chaired the Department of Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Wyoming and in doing so became the first woman to hold a head position at a state university. She was appointed to the American Psychological Association Council and became a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.