Joan Stevenson (Judy) Abbott, RRC (11 December 1899 – 27 November 1975) was an Australian army hospital matron during the Second World War.

[1] She was appointed a baby clinic nurse, on probation, the following month,[2] and completed her child welfare certificate in June 1926.

[3] On 8 August 1940 Abbott was appointed for service with the Second Australian Imperial Force as a matron of a unit of Queensland nurses.

She returned to Australia in 1943 and in April was appointed principal matron of the Queensland Lines of Communication Area.

[5] In June 1946 Abbott was awarded a Florence Nightingale Foundation scholarship and undertook two years' postgraduate study in London.