Berkeley California Educator Nadine Lambert Dies In Auto Accident

BERKELEY – Nadine Lambert, a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leader in school psychology and establishing mental health programs in schools, died in a car accident near campus. She was 79.

At the time of her death, Lambert was en route to the Graduate School of Education, where she was a professor emerita of education and an advisor and mentor at the school's joint doctoral program in education leadership.

Lambert founded the school psychology program at the education school in 1964, her first year at UC Berkeley. The National Institutes of Mental Health supported the program for 18 years as a model for preparing school psychologists.

More than 160 graduates have completed the program and gone on to become school psychologists, researchers, consultants and university educators. One graduate, Frank Worrell, is now an associate professor at the Graduate School of Education and director of the school psychology program Lambert headed for 40 years.

"Ultimately, we have lost a personal advocate and a strong and knowledgeable colleague, and the Graduate School of Education and I are diminished with her passing," said Worrell.