Nell Mercer

Nell Mercer, from Norfolk, Virginia was a member of the Norfolk branch of the National Women's Party. She was a businesswoman. A member of the Silent Sentinels picketing Woodrow Wilson's White House for women's suffrage, she was arrested in February 1919 for her participation in a watchfire demonstration and sentenced to five days in jail.

Mercer owned a small hardware store in Norfolk, Virginia.