Cecelia Helen Goetz (September 30, 1917 – January 26, 2004) was an American lawyer and bankruptcy judge who served as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.

[6] After initially being rebuffed, Goetz took a job at the Department of Justice in the equivalent of today's Civil Division.

[8][8] She had been offered a supervisor's role at Justice—the first woman to be given such an opportunity—but declined it in favor of work at Nuremberg.

[5][13] At the time, she observed that "[t]o get a decision in this case would, in my opinion, be a great step toward avoiding future wars.

[16] In the early 1990s, Goetz oversaw the bankruptcy proceedings of Braniff International Airways, which had filed under Chapter 11 in August 1991.