Ann (Anna) Elizabeth Tanneyhill (January 19, 1906 - May 15, 2001) was the National Urban League's director of vocational services from 1947 to 1961.

Starting in 1930 and until her retirement in 1971, she was on the headquarters staff of the organization and led the league's efforts to increase job opportunities for Black Americans.

She did groundbreaking work in the use of radio and television to promote pride in Black heritage and was a strong supporter of voter registration efforts aimed at minority youth.

[4] After graduating from Simmons, Tanneyhill worked for two years as a secretary and bookkeeper for St. John's Institutional Activities (an organization affiliated with the National Urban League) in Springfield, Massachusetts.In 1930, Tanneyhill was appointed secretary to the National Urban League's director of industrial relations, a position she held for the next ten years.

The first was a series of career conferences between 1950 and 1955 where major companies were invited to recruit on HBCU campuses, which served to provide Black students with more professional opportunities and also to provide employers with records of discriminatory practices a means to improve their standing by hiring more Black talent.

The second was the Tomorrow's Scientists and Technicians Project, which was a nation-wide program designed to encourage Black youth to explore career interests in the sciences.

She oversaw two radio programs for CBS, "The Negro and National Defense" in 1941,[8] and "Heroines in Bronze" in 1943.

[9] She was also involved in television, as the primary consultant for a documentary sponsored by the National Urban League, "A Morning for Jimmy.

At Tanneyhill's memorial service, the chairwoman of the Mashpee Historical Commission credited her with researching and gathering much of the data held by the town's archives and for playing in active role in saving South Mashpee School, one of the three buildings in town on the National Register of Historic Places.

Bibliography on the Negro and National Defense ; Selected References for the Period January 1940 to July 1941.