Theresa Marie Korn (née McLaughlin, November 5, 1926 – April 9, 2020) was an American engineer, radio enthusiast, and airplane pilot.

A fictionalized version of Korn is one of the characters in the novel Kay Everett Calls CQ by Amelia Lobsenz (Vanguard Press, 1951), describing a girls' summer road trip adventure in the 1940s with ham radio and flying components.

[3] Theresa McLaughlin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 5, 1926, the daughter of a civil engineer.

[1] Despite opposition to teaching her from some male faculty members, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1947, and was nominated for membership in Eta Kappa Nu, the international honor society of the IEEE.

[4] In 1957, her husband became a professor of computer and electrical engineering at the University of Arizona, while Theresa Korn managed the consulting business and became active in Tucson society.