Rosalind Goodrich Bates (July 29, 1894 – November 14, 1961) was an American lawyer and clubwoman, based in Los Angeles, California.

[10] After early work as an editor and actress in New York,[4][11] Bates was a trial lawyer in Los Angeles.

[24][25] For the Fall 1957 issue of the Women Lawyers Journal that chronicled the association's "New York-London Convention", Bates even assisted then-editor Eva M. Mack (who worked as an attorney for Hugh Ellwood Macbeth Sr.) to preserve the historical event.

As a member of the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), she was on the Executive Board as the delegate from California, and was chair of the organization's annual convention.

[33] She married her college drama co-star,[34] blind writer Leslie Burton Blades, in 1919; they divorced in 1923.

[5] Rosalind Goodrich Bates died in 1961, aged 67 years, shot to death at her home in Silver Lake.

[38][39][40] One suspect was a man involved in a custody battle with one of Bates' clients;[41] he was arrested but later cleared.