Anna Tolman Smith (January 4, 1840 – August 28, 1917) was an American educator, editor, and writer.

[1][2] In 1865, Smith and her sister, Abbie M. Condron, started Park Seminary, a girls' school in Washington, D.C.

From 1886 to her death in 1917, Smith wrote a monthly column, "Foreign Notes", for the journal Education.

She worked on the editorial staff on Paul Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education,[3] for which she also wrote over 30 articles.

[6] Smith attended the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, as part of her work for the US Office of Education in Washington, D.C.[4] While there, she was named an "Officier de l'Instruction Publique" by the French government.