Ron Fox was awarded a 2017 APA Presidential Citation for making our world a better place through making the profession of psychology a central change agent.
On the closing of the American Psychological Association’s 125th anniversary, I, Antonio E. Puente, as president of our venerable society bestow upon Ronald E. Fox this APA Presidential Citation on Dec. 31, 2017.
From humble beginnings to being president of our great association, Ron Fox has been driven with a vision of making our world a better place through making the profession of psychology a central change agent. His long and illustrious career has spanned several decades and various settings including as a clinician, a professor and an advocate for the profession of psychology. Starting early in his career, Fox stood firmly for ethnic-minorities, for women and for the poor, when such advocacy was considered unimportant.
Within APA, he has held numerous governance positions from committee member to being president, and a trustee of the insurance trust. Dr. Fox has been a pioneer in so many venues that it is impossible to list them all. But here are some important illustrations; key in establishing the APA Practice Directorate, Div. 29 (Psychotherapy), Div. 55 (Psychopharmacology), and the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC). He advocated in Ohio for the founding of one the first Doctor of Psychology programs in the U.S. Dr. Fox was instrumental in establishing one of the first psychology licensing boards in the U.S. (Ohio). In addition, he is considered the “grandfather” for prescription authority in psychology.
Ron Fox has been a calm, steady and reasoned voice for all of psychology for almost half a century. For his efforts, his resiliency, his vision and the many results that have made the profession of psychology what it is today, on this last day of APA’s 125th anniversary, let it be known that Ronald E. Fox is presented this APA Presidential Citation.