Terry Mutchler is an American attorney and writer. She was formerly a journalist and public servant in Pennsylvania. As a journalist, she won several awards for her reporting and was Associated Press' Bureau Chief in New Jersey and Alaska. She later became an attorney, and was appointed the first executive director of the newly established Pennsylvania Office of Open Records. Her memoir, Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography.