Joy Rosenheim Simonson (January 16, 1919 – June 24, 2007) was a feminist who worked on women's rights and progressive activist.
A New York City native and graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Simonson began her career in the 1940s for the War Manpower Commission.
[citation needed] In 1945, she worked for the U. N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Egypt and Yugoslavia at the end of the war, then as a civilian for Army headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, until 1948, when she and her husband returned to Washington.
[citation needed] From 1975 to 1982, Simonson was the executive director of the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs.
Simonson was the first woman to serve as chair of the DC Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; President of the Clearinghouse on Women's Issues; chief hearing examiner for the D.C.