Ruth Ann Killion (1949–2021) was an American government statistician who worked for the United States Census Bureau.
Killion was born on November 2, 1949, in Springfield, Illinois, where her father was a minister.
[1] She was educated at Florida State University, earning a master's degree in statistics there in 1973.
[2] She worked for many years in the Census Bureau,[1] and as executive director of the Office for Research, Planning, and Evaluation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
[1] In 2016, Killion was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.