Dita Hopkins Kinney (September 13, 1855 – April 16, 1921) was the first superintendent of the United States Army Nurse Corps, serving from 1901 to 1909.

As a young widow, she trained as a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.

[3] In that year, she was called "perhaps the most conspicuous woman in the nursing profession today".

[4] Her work included lecture and inspection tours of army hospitals in the United States and abroad.

[2] Dita Hopkins married Mark Kinney in 1874,[7] and had one son before she was widowed in 1878.