Jean Galloway Bissell (June 9, 1936 – February 4, 1990) was a South Carolina attorney who became a high-ranking bank executive, and later a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

She worked as an executive at South Carolina National Bank in Columbia from 1976 until 1984, rising to become the highest-ranking female executive among the 100 largest bank holding companies in the United States.

[2] On May 24, 1984, Bissell was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a new seat established by 96 Stat.

[1] With her confirmation, she became the first female South Carolina lawyer to become a federal judge.

[1] Bissell died of cancer on February 4, 1990, at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., at the age of 53.