Dame Alison Burns Quentin-Baxter DNZM QSO (née Souter; 28 December 1929 – 30 September 2023) was a New Zealand public and international lawyer.

In 1956, she was promoted to head of the department's legal division, a position she held until 1960 when she was posted to Washington, D.C. as the first secretary in the New Zealand Embassy.

[1] In late 1961, Quentin-Baxter resigned from her position as she was engaged, and married women did not normally continue in paid work at that time.

Following her marriage, she and her husband spent two years in Tokyo before returning to Wellington,[7] where she began teaching law at a polytechnic college.

[1] In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, Quentin-Baxter was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the law.