Gale A. Yee (Chinese: 余蓮秀; pinyin: Yú Liánxiù; born 1949) is an American scholar of the Hebrew Bible.
She completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1985 in the Old Testament at the University of St. Michael's College in the Toronto School of Theology.
From 1984 to 1998, she served as Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of Women's Studies at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN).
On November 19, 2017, Yee was elected as Vice-President of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2018, leading to the position as President of the SBL in 2019.
[2] Yee was honored as a qianbei ("respected elder") at the 2014 International Congress of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Scholars,[4] received the Graduate Theological Foundation's Krister Stendahl Medal in 2015,[5] and received the Society of Biblical Literature's "Status of Women in the Profession Committee Mentor Award" in 2016.