Judy Butland (née Whiteley) (6 October 1940 - 2019) was a British engineering software designer who pioneered the use of computers at universities.

[1] She suffered from arthritis all her life and from the age of 12 to 14, was confined to bed at Wharfedale children's hospital in Menston, with little communication with her family and no information from her doctors.

[3][1] In 1967 she went to work at the Manchester Business School as Mathematical Assistant to Winifred Hackett, an aeronatutical engineer.

She advised other groups in the Business School on computing, including working with the librarian to automate the classification of publications.

[5] Butland left this post to work at the University of Bradford, Postgraduate School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, improving the quality of programming in research projects.