Katherine Rebecca Pettit (February 23, 1868 – September 3, 1936) was an American educator and suffragist from Kentucky who contributed to the settlement school movement of the early 20th century.

A member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, she became a progressive educator.

Their journals, filled with words to local ballads and idiomatic expressions of their students and families from homes nearby, describe in detail their classes in health and homemaking, as well as teacher training.

[3] A local elder Solomon Everage watched the two women—"quare fotched-on women from the level land,"[4]—for some time and eventually asked them to establish a permanent industrial school in the Troublesome Creek area.

[7] According to Berea College's Southern Appalachian Archives, [Pettit and deLong] hoped that their modern ideas about health, nutrition, work efficiency, farm management, and the cultural value of indigenous crafts would permeate the surrounding communities -- both through the children, and through direct contact with adults.

[2] One of her hobbies was collecting quilts (several of which are now displayed in the Bodley-Bullock House in the Gratz Park Historic District), as well as the folk tales and ballads of the region.