Beth Willman is an American astronomer who is the Chief Executive Officer of the LSST Discovery Alliance,[1] an astronomical organization notable for its support of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

She was previously the deputy director of the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) and an associate professor of astronomy at Haverford College.

[2][3] Her doctoral advisor was Julianne Dalcanton and her thesis was on Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxies.

[3] Beth Willman has also been a James Arthur Fellow at New York University's Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, and a Clay Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

[5][6] The galaxy Willman 1, which she discovered during her postdoc, is named after her.