Lila Althea Fenwick (May 24, 1932 – April 4, 2020) was an American lawyer, human rights advocate, and United Nations official.

[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in history from Barnard College in 1953,[4][5] before enrolling at Harvard Law School.

[1] During her career, Fenwick was a private practice lawyer in the Bronx,[6] and chief of the U.N. Human Rights Section, focused on indigenous peoples, migration, gender, race, and religious discrimination issues.

[2][8] She also co-founded the Foundation for Research and Education in Sickle Cell Disease with Doris Wethers and Yvette Fay Francis-McBarnette.

[9][10] Harvard's Black Law Students Association offers a Ruffin-Fenwick Trailblazer Award, named for Fenwick and for George Lewis Ruffin.