Virginia Dodd Smith (June 30, 1911 – January 23, 2006) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1991 for Nebraska's 3rd district.

Before serving in Congress, Smith chaired the American Farm Bureau Women for twenty years.

In the year of Watergate, she defeated her Democratic opponent Wayne Ziebarth by just 737 votes.

However, she never faced another contest anywhere near that close, and was reelected seven more times from what has long been one of the most Republican districts in the nation.

Proving just how Republican this district was, her lowest vote share apart from her initial bid was 69 percent in 1986, and she even ran unopposed in 1982.