Uldine Mabelle Utley (March 16, 1912 – October 31, 1995) was an American Pentecostal child preacher.^[1]

Utley was born in Durant, Oklahoma,^[2] the daughter of Azle Herbert Utley and Hattie Ellen Bray Utley.^[3] Her father was an electrician, and a farmer and postmaster while the family lived in Colorado.^[4][5]

Utley had a conversion experience in 1921, inspired by the preaching of Aimee Semple McPherson while she was living in Fresno, California.^[6] Within two years Utley was preaching across the United States,^[7] and at the age of fourteen she preached to a crowd of 14,000 people at Madison Square Garden.^[8][9] During Utley's appearances at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933,^[10] during a heatwave, her program was promoted as having "cooled air" and comfortable seats.^[11]

In 1935, she was ordained by the Methodist Episcopal Church.^[12] Utley was called "the Joan of Arc of the modern religious world".^[13] She was also called a "second Billy Sunday"^[14] and, as a young woman, "the ingenue of evangelism"^[10] and "the Garbo of the pulpit".^[15]

She married salesman Wilbur Eugene Langkop in 1938,^[13][16][17] but was committed to a mental hospital shortly after her marriage, and eventually divorced. (He remarried in 1945.) Utley spent the rest of her life in and out of mental institutions.^[5] She died in 1995, at the age of 83, in San Bernardino, California. A biography of Utley was published in 2016.^[1][18]