Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC (2 October 1913 – 5 March 2000)[1] was an Australian lawyer, judge and state governor.

[3] As well as a practicing barrister, she was a lecturer in family law at the University of Adelaide and Margaret Nyland was one of her students, with Dame Roma becoming a mentor to her.

She was still the only female judge in South Australia when she retired 18 years later in 1983, although Justices Elizabeth Evatt and Mary Gaudron had been appointed to Federal courts by the Whitlam government.

One of the Bay class patrol boats operated by the Australian Customs is named ACV Dame Roma Mitchell.

A statue of Dame Roma, in Prince Henry Gardens, directly outside Government House, Adelaide, was erected in 1999.