Kate Hevner Mueller (November 1, 1898 – August 10, 1984) was an American psychologist and educator who served as dean of women at Indiana University during 1938–1949.
Born Kate Lucile Hevner in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, she was the second daughter and middle child to a minister father and a schoolteacher mother.
[1] She attended Williamsport High School[2] then matriculated in 1916 to Wilson College, where she majored in English[1] with a minor in French.
[3][4] She became an instructor at Wilson, teaching mathematics and psychology up until 1926 when she applied for a fellowship to study at the University of Chicago under L. L.
[6] After teaching part-time at the IU extension campus in Indianapolis,[1] Mueller became dean of women at Indiana in 1938, taking over the office from Agnes E. Wells[7] who was retiring for health reasons.
[8] Mueller resigned from the Office of Dean of Women in 1949, wherein she joined the education department as an associate professor.