Ester Frances Bentley (October 24, 1915 – January 20, 2004) was an American social worker and community organizer, based in Southern California.
[4][5][6] She was director of field services of the Kentucky Society for Crippled Children in Harlan County in 1950.
[15][16] She was a caseworker at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, and editor of the Directory of Health, Welfare, and Recreational Services.
Her papers constitute one of the largest collections[23] in the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives at UCLA.
[17][24] One of the unusual artifacts in the collection is a folding screen room divider, decorated by Bentley with hundreds of photos of her friends, colleagues, and lovers, many of them labeled with their first names; Bentley added the title "Celebrating the Women in My Life" to the top edge of the screen.