Dr. William U. “Bill” Weiss passed away on Sunday 11/5/2023 in
Vancouver, WA. He was 85. Bill was born on November 12, 1937 in Baltimore,
Maryland. He obtained his B.A. in 1960 from The Johns Hopkins University
and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1969 from the University of
Maryland. He enjoyed a 50-year career as a clinical psychologist.
Although Bill worked in multiple settings, he worked most of his career
as a university faculty member. He was Assistant Professor of Psychology
at Lafayette College from 1970 to 1976 and then was a faculty member in
the Department of Psychology at University of Evansville from 1976 to
2008, rising to the rank of full Professor. He was very active in a
number of professional organizations in psychology, particularly the Society
for Police and Criminal Psychology, the Society for Personality Assessment,
and APA. He served as editor of the Journal of Police and Criminal
Psychology for several years in the 2000s. Bill retired from
the University of Evansville in 2008 and moved to the Pacific Northwest, where he
worked part-time in independent practice as a psychologist and enjoyed
traveling and spending time with his children and grandchildren. His
wife, Judith, passed away in 2022. He is survived by his son and
daughter-in-law, Dr. Peter Weiss and Kristin Weiss, and his daughter and
son-in-law, Rachel Stafford and Scott Stafford, and his two
grandchildren, Ariella Stafford and Sidney Stafford.