Lucy Browne Johnston (April 7, 1846 – February 17, 1937) was an American social and political reformer and women's suffrage activist.

[1] Johnston left Camden after finishing grade school to attend the Western Female Seminary in Oxford, Ohio.

Johnston graduated in 1866 with a degree doctor of laws, and then returned to Camden to teach at a grade school for four years.

The commission continued Johnston's crusade to provide books to reading clubs throughout the state of Kansas.

Johnston died one month later in her Topeka, Kansas, home on February 17, 1937, from a two-year illness.