Lenore Alice Epstein Bixby (August 12, 1914 – April 5, 1994)[1] was an American statistician who worked with the Social Security Administration and the National Academy of Sciences.
[4] As a student of the class of 1935 at Wellesley College, she became chairman of the school's branch of the League of Women Voters, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors as a Senior Durant Scholar.
[5] She did graduate study in economics and statistics at Columbia University, earning a master's degree there in 1937.
[3] After completing her studies, she came to work for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and then, after World War II, as an operations officer for the Marshall Plan.
She joined the Social Security Administration in 1954,[3] and worked there as deputy assistant commissioner of the Office of Research and Statistics and later as director of the Division of Retirement and Survivors' Studies.