Nell Battle Lewis (May 28, 1893 – November 26, 1956) was an American journalist and lawyer in North Carolina.

[2] Nell's half brother Kent Plummer Lewis was a member of University of North Carolina's first consolidated board of trustees.

Her long-running weekly column, "Incidentally," launched in 1921, making her that newspaper's first female columnist.

She did not practice law full-time, but used her qualifications to defend a group of women's reformatory inmates accused of arson.

[5] Later in her career Nell wrote regularly about the threat of communism at the University of North Carolina,[8] and the importance of racial segregation in Southern schools.