Luella Johnston (née Buckminster, 1861 – March 11, 1958), was an early 20th-century American businesswoman, civic reformer, and suffragist[1] who was also the first woman elected to the Sacramento City Council (then called the City Commission), where she served from 1912 to 1913.[2] Her election was the first time a woman was elected to a city council in California or of any major American city.[3]