Elizabeth Eckhardt May (February 18, 1899 – October 24, 1996) was an American home economist, educator, and college administrator.

[4] One of her sisters was Gertrude Eckhardt, an American public health nurse who worked in Germany with the US military government after World War II.

[7][8] May was a demonstration agent and state specialist with the West Virginia University Agricultural Extension Service.

She was executive secretary of the Oglebay Institute, and of the White House Conference on Children in Democracy.

[12] Her research involved studies of physically disabled women's domestic work, including childcare, and rehabilitation approaches aimed at that group.