Olga Bridgman

Olga Bridgman (March 30, 1886 - February 6, 1974) was an American physician and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley.

She was the first person to earn a doctoral degree in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

[2] After graduation from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Olga Bridgman worked as resident physician in two Illinois public institutions and then moved to New Jersey to collaborate with Henry H. Goddard on a version of the Binet's mental tests, the first to be developed in the United States.

[1][2] She was: psychologist in San Francisco Juvenile Court; medical psychologist for the San Francisco Board of Health; director of the San Francisco Bureau of Mental Hygiene, Department of Health; consultant to the California State School for the Deaf; consultant to the Langley Porter Clinic.

[1] She died on February 6, 1974, at San Mateo, California, and is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma.