Marjorie L. Van Eenam Butcher (1925–2016) was an American mathematician, the first female faculty member in mathematics at the University of Michigan and the first female faculty member at Trinity College (Connecticut).
[1] Her mother was an actuary and graduate of the University of Michigan, and her father was a civil engineer.
[1] She became a trainee at an insurance firm,[3] but in 1952 she was hired as an instructor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, the first woman to teach mathematics at the university, and she continued there (as Marjorie Butcher after her 1954 to mathematician Robert W. Butcher) through 1956.
[1][5][3] With Cecil J. Nesbitt, Butcher was the coauthor of an updated edition of the book Mathematics of Compound Interest (1971), which Nesbitt had previously published with Carl Hahn Fischer in 1943.
In 2009, Trinity college gave Butcher an honorary doctorate.