Lucy Alma Willis Sydenstricker (April 21, 1866 – November 26, 1960) was an American college professor and clubwoman.

She taught religion classes at Agnes Scott College from 1917 to 1943, and was active in the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

[2] She attended Montgomery Female College,[3] and the American Institute of Sacred Literature.

[9] She spoke to the Agnes Scott alumnae in Atlanta in 1935, about her travels around the Mediterranean,[10] and in 1937, about her niece, writer Pearl S.

Their son Virgil Preston Sydenstricker (1889–1964) became a noted physician and medical researcher.