Mary Ward Hicks (1920[1] – circa 2018[2]) was an American psychologist specializing in family therapy, and a professor emerita at Florida State University.

[5] She attended Whitman College and studied education as an undergraduate at the University of Idaho, graduating in 1942.

[17] There is a Mary Hicks Endowed Scholarship Fund at Florida State, to support doctoral students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program.

[18] Mary Ward married poultry geneticist Amp Frank Hicks Jr., in 1945.

[4] They met while he was at a hospital in Utah, and she was a Red Cross worker there, during World War II.