Ada Weintraub Finifter (June 6, 1938—October 29, 2011) was an American political scientist.
[1] Finifter graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in political science in 1959, and then earned an MA at the University of Michigan.
[1] Finifter then joined the political science faculty at Andrés Bello Catholic University as a member of the Peace Corps, working there for one year before returning to the United States and beginning a political science PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
[4] Finifter was the president of the Midwest Political Science Association in the year 1986–87.
[5] She was the editor of the American Political Science Review from March 1996 until December 2001.