Elinor Raas Heller

Elinor Raas Heller (October 3, 1904 – August 15, 1987) was an American academic administrator. From 1961–1976 she was a Regent of the University of California. She served as Chair in 1975–1976, and Vice-Chair in 1968–1969 and 1971–1972. In 1973 she was appointed to serve on California's Postsecondary Education Commission. She received the Clark Kerr Award in 1976.

Biography Heller was born in San Francisco, California. She graduated from Mills College in 1925.

She was awarded the UCSF medal in 1978.

Personal life In 1925, she married financier Edward Hellman Heller, grandson of banker Isaias W. Hellman. The couple resided in Atherton, California and had three children. Edward Heller died in 1961. Her daughter was arts patron Elizabeth Heller Mandell, married to Alan Mandell.