Eileen Cummings (born 1943)[1] is a teacher, policy and liaison officer and Indigenous leader in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Eileen Cummings was born in Arnhem Land in the Barunga-Wugularr region where she lived along with her mother, Florrie Lindsay, and her stepfather, Chuckerduck.

[8] Cummings remained at this institution until she was fifteen, after which she resided in a foster home in Darwin until she was eighteen.

[10] Cummings was the first Indigenous person in the Northern Territory to qualify as a pre-school teacher.

[2][12] In the 2013 Federal Election, Cummings was unsuccessful as Australian First Nations Political Party candidate for the Division of Solomon in the House of Representatives.