Elizabeth Webster Mitchell (October 7, 1972 – March 20, 1998) was an American educator and competitive shag dancer.

[3] Through her mother she is descended from Scottish emigrants George Irving and Jane McDonald, who came to the United States in 1834 from Closeburn, Dumfriesshire aboard the Hector.

[1] As a teenager she became a competitive shag dancer and, at the age of fifteen, she joined the National Shaggers Association.

[8][9] After high school, Mitchell earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega.

[12] She and her dance partner, Brad Kinard, won the championship in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 1998.

[12][21][22] Friendship Park in downtown Stoneville was built as a memorial to Mitchell and Powell Hickman, a local farmer who was also killed by the 1998 tornado.