Helen Mary Walker (December 1, 1891 – January 15, 1983) was a statistician and prominent educational researcher, and the first female president of the American Statistical Association when she was elected in 1944.

At Columbia University Teachers College,[2] her alma mater, she was a lecturer in statistics beginning in 1925.

She rose through professional ranks, and eventually served as Full Professor of Education from 1940 to 1957.

She graduated from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1912 with a Bachelor of Philosophy and then taught high school mathematics for nine years.

She earned her PhD from Columbia in 1929 with a dissertation titled Studies in the History of Statistical Method.