Juanita Breckenridge Bates (December 31, 1860 - June 11, 1946) was an American Congregationalist minister, her application being the test case to determine the policy of the denomination.

[2] Juanita Breckenridge was born in Hopewell, Rivoli Township, Mercer County, Illinois on December 31, 1860.

Annis F. Eastman, and the congregation was so pleased with her ministry that they called Breckenridge to succeed her.

[3] At that time, she resigned from her Congregational Church position as she intended to visit her mother in the midwest.

[7] Frederick died in 1922, and Bates managed the large estate left by her husband.

[7] Bates died June 11, 1946,[5] in Ithaca,[7] and was buried in Lake View Cemetery.