Ella Louise Stokes Hunter (died 1988) was an American mathematics educator who became the first African-American woman to earn a degree at the University of Virginia.

[2][3] Although African American women such as Alberta Virginia Scott had previously graduated from Radcliffe College, she may have been the first to earn a degree from Harvard proper.

[5] After graduating from Howard University, Hunter became an instructor at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, where she taught for many years.

[2][7] On the faculty at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, she met John McNeile Hunter,[2] who began teaching electrical engineering there in 1925 and later became the third African American to earn a doctorate in physics.

[13] After retiring from Virginia State University, Hunter continued to teach at Saint Paul's College.