Brigadier Dame Jean Elizabeth Rivett-Drake, DBE, DL (1909 – 8 August 1999) was a senior British Army officer and politician. She served as director of the Women's Royal Army Corps between 1961 and 1964. After retiring from the army, she entered local politics and was elected to Hove Borough Council (1966–1984) and later to East Sussex County Council (1973–1977). She was Mayor of Hove from 1977 to 1978; she was the first woman to hold that appointment.[1][2]