Christian Jollie Smith (15 March 1885 – 14 January 1963)[1] was an Australian socialist lawyer and co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia.

[2] She was notable for her work representing striking miners, underprivileged tenants during the Great Depression and briefing legal counsel for the successful High Court challenges to the attempted exclusion of Egon Kisch from Australia and the Communist Party Act of 1951.

She belonged to a group of left-wing intellectuals including William Earsman, Louis and Hilda Esson, and Katharine Susannah Prichard, and was active in the anti-conscription campaigns of World War I.

[2][3] In 1919, she taught English literature at Melbourne High and Brighton Grammar schools, and on moving to Sydney, at the Labor College of New South Wales.

The Australian Communist newspaper, Tribune, described her as one of the "most devoted fighters in the intellectual and professional fields" on behalf of the working class.