Josephine Webb (June 21, 1918 – May 4, 2017) was an American electrical engineer who obtained two patents for oil circuit breaker contact design, known colloquially as "switchgear".

[1] She designed an eighteen-inch, full newspaper size fax machine with superior resolution.

She grew up in a one-parent household in Buffalo; her father served in World War I and never returned home.

She became a Buhl Research Fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Carnegie Institute of Technology for two years.

It was during her tenure with the company that she obtained two patents for oil circuit breaker contact design.

In addition to the consulting business, Webb also took a position in 1977 with North Idaho College where she began development of a Computer Center and worked on several government grants for enhancing the campus and its educational programs.