"The highest values are individual": The life and times of Eleanor Harris Rowland Wembridge

Eleanor Harris Rowland Wembridge, one of the first women psychologists in the country, advocated tirelessly for the delivery of psychological services to enhance the lives of marginalized girls and women. Eleanor launched forward professionally with her doctorate at the young age of 22 and began work 5 years later at the Bedford reformatory that would ultimately lead to the first published correctional psychology research study. This precedent sets the historical marker at the interface of offender assessment, programs, and reentry. A harbinger of the scientist-practitioner model in clinical psychology, Eleanor retained a scholarly approach to her public service psychology work in various academic, correctional, forensic, and military settings across the country. In those public service settings, she heard and reflected the voices of the underserved through her distinctive advocacy, service, and justice writing. Eleanor left behind a largely invisible, but important legacy inside the walls of the correctional institution as an advocate for programs for justice-involved women, and outside the walls of corrections as a model for women psychologists. She is a remarkable figure in the history of public service psychology, and this article eliminates the problem of her absence from the general history of psychology literature. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).