Loretta Braxton, PhD, was awarded a 2019 Presidential Citation for her remarkable leadership and commitment to improving the lives of our nation’s veterans and training the psychologists who serve them.
She embodies the scientist-practitioner model in psychology, devoting her career to psychodiagnostics, preventive behavioral medicine and multicultural issues in psychology. Within the Department of Veterans Affairs, Braxton has served as a VA chief psychologist, as well as director of the Psychodiagnostic Lab and Smoking Cessation Clinic and Consulting Psychologist to the Inpatient Psychiatry and Mental Health Acute Care Clinic at the Durham VA Medical Center. She has also maintained a faculty appointment as Clinical Associate in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center and is past chair of the VA Psychology Training Council.
For her unwavering dedication to developing psychologists and to serving veterans and for standing as a shining example of the values of mentorship and public service in psychology, I, Rosie Phillips Davis, present this presidential citation to Loretta Braxton, PhD.