Background
Gray, Mary Wheat was born in 1939 in Hastings, Nebraska, United States. Daughter of Neil C. and Lillie W. (Alves) Wheat.
Gray, Mary Wheat was born in 1939 in Hastings, Nebraska, United States. Daughter of Neil C. and Lillie W. (Alves) Wheat.
AB summa cum laude, Hastings College, 1959. Postgraduate, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Federal Republic Germany, 1960. Master of Arts, University Kansas, 1962.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Kansas, 1964. Juris Doctor summa cum laude, American University, 1979. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Nebraska, 1993.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hastings College, 1996. Degree in Doctor Human Letters (honorary), Mount Holyoke College, 2008.
Physicist National Bureau Standards, Washington, summers 1959-1963. Assistant instructor University Kansas, Lawrence, 1963-1964. Instructor department mathematics University California, Berkeley, 1965.
Assistant professor California State University, Hayward, 1965-1967, associate professor, 1967-1968. Associate professor department mathematics, statistics and computer science American University, 1968-1971, professor, since 1971, chairman department, 1977-1979, 80-81, 83—. Statistical consultant for government agencies, university and private firms, since 1976.
Visiting professor King's College, London, 2004.
National treasurer, director Women's Equity Action League, from 1981, president, from 1982. Board directors treasurer American Civil Liberties Union, Montgomery County, Maryland. Member advisory committee District of Columbia Department Employment Services, since 1983.
Director Amnesty International United States of America, since 1985, treasurer, 1988-1993, chair, 1993-1995. Member Commission on College Retirement, 1984-1986. Board directors American-Middle East Education Foundation, since 1983, chair, since 1998.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman committee on women, committee on investments, committee on science freedom and responsibility, Lifetime Mentoring award 1995), American Statistical Association. Member American Association of University Professors (regional counsel since 1984, committee on academy freedom since 1978, director Legal Defense Fund 1974-1978, board directors Exxon Project on Salary Discrimination 1974-1976, committee on status of women 1972-1978, Georgina Smith award), American Mathematics Society (vice president 1976-1978, council 1973-1978), Amnesty International (international treasurer 1995-2001, chair United States of America 1993-1995), Conference Board Mathematics Sciences (chairman committee on affirmative action 1977-1978), Mathematics Association American (chairman committee on school lecturers 1973-1975, visiting lecturer since 1974), Association for Women in Math (founding president 1971-1974, executive committee 1974-1980, general counsel since 1980), District of Columbia Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Society International Law, London Mathematics Society, Societe de Mathematique de France, British Society History of Mathematics, Canada Society History of Mathematics, Association Computing Machinery, New York Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Chi, Pi Mu Epsilon.
Married Alfred Gray, August 20, 1964.