Dorothy Sargent Coombe (17 March 1896 – 27 November 1982) was an early Australian trade unionist.
She was a long-running assistant secretary of the Australian Government Workers Association, setting a record in this capacity, and was the first woman in South Australia to advocate in the Industrial Court.
[1][2][3] Coombe began with the Government Workers Association as a typist, and was subsequently promoted to assistant secretary in 1917.
[5] She was described as "one of the most popular union officials in the state" in 1920, winning recognition for "her special efforts on behalf of the association during the tribunal and reference board cases".
[6] In 1928, she became the first woman in South Australia to appear before the Industrial Court in the absence of union secretary Frank Nieass.