Holly B. Shulman is an American statistician in the Division of Reproductive Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a developer of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System for the CDC, and the former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. As well as her work on the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, her publications include highly cited work on abortion-related deaths.
Shulman is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, where she was an honors student in mathematics. Her interest in statistics began in a high school mathematics summer program, part of the Georgia Governor's Honors Program. She majored in mathematics at Georgia Tech, and went on to do a master's degree in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Shulman has worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for over 35 years. She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for 1999, and chaired the American Statistical Association's Committee on Women in Statistics in 2000.