Flight Lieutenant Michelle Jayne Goodman DFC (born 22 November 1976) is a retired Royal Air Force officer.

She was the first woman to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), for her actions while serving in Iraq, and the first female officer to be awarded any British combat gallantry medal.

[2] Goodman joined the RAF in 2000, and after initial officer training at Royal Air Force College Cranwell,[1] she was appointed to a permanent commission as a pilot officer on 8 August 2000.

[1] She was captain of an Incident Reaction Team Merlin, when, on 1 June 2007, she flew into Basra at night using night vision and under heavy fire to evacuate a serious casualty, 20-year-old Rifleman Stephen Vause of the 4th Battalion The Rifles (who had been given 15 minutes to live following a mortar attack).

[7] In December 2009, Goodman trained with the RAF in preparation for the joining Afghan War.