Clara Washington Burrill Bruce (June 25, 1879 – January 22, 1947) was an American lawyer, writer, clubwoman, and editor.

Mary P. Burrill and Slowe were also founding members of the National Council of Negro Women.

[7] Bruce was hired as a teacher in East Orange, New Jersey, in 1899,[1] and occasionally taught her husband's courses at Tuskegee Institute between 1904 and 1906, while he was traveling with Booker T. Washington.

[8] She and her husband managed Dunbar Apartments, a large cooperative housing complex in Harlem, from 1927 to 1936.

[7] Burrill married educator Roscoe Conkling Bruce in 1903,[2] at a wedding performed by Francis James Grimké.