Virginia Mae Brown (November 13, 1923 – February 15, 1991) was an American civil servant, government official, and lawyer.

She was later named West Virginia's insurance commissioner, the first female to hold this position in the United States.

[3] In 1969, President Johnson promoted her as the first female chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission for a one-year term.

[4] After Brown left the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1979, she was president and chair of the board of the Buffalo Bank of Eleanor.

From 1983 through 1991 she served in the United States Department of Health and Human Services office of hearing appeals in Charleston, West Virginia, in the position of chief administrative law judge.