Helen Tunnicliff Catterall (March 3, 1870 – November 10, 1933) was an American lawyer, writer, and historian, based in Chicago.
"[5] After Vassar, Tunnicliff earned a law degree and pursued further studies in political science at the University of Chicago.
[7] She is best known as main author of the five-volume Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro (1926–1937),[9] written with support from the Carnegie Foundation.
[10] Her work remains a useful source on the legal history of slavery in the United States,[11][12] and is still referenced in controversies on the subject, almost a century after its publication.
Helen Tunnicliff Catterall died in 1933, aged 63 years, in Richmond, Virginia, where her son lived.