Juanita Breckenridge Bates (December 31, 1860 - June 11, 1946) was an American Congregationalist minister, her application being the test case to determine the policy of the denomination.
She was the first woman to be awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Oberlin College (1891), and Oberlin was the first school to award this degree.
For decades, she was a community organizer in the women's suffrage movement.