diff --git a/src/Microsoft.Data.Analysis/ArrowStringDataFrameColumn.cs b/src/Microsoft.Data.Analysis/ArrowStringDataFrameColumn.cs
index 6b98285842..465064e634 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.Data.Analysis/ArrowStringDataFrameColumn.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.Data.Analysis/ArrowStringDataFrameColumn.cs
@@ -601,5 +601,24 @@ public override PrimitiveDataFrameColumn<bool> ElementwiseNotEquals(DataFrameCol
         {
             return StringDataFrameColumn.ElementwiseNotEqualsImplementation(this, column);
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Applies a function to all the values
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="func">The function to apply</param>
+        /// <returns>A <see cref="ArrowStringDataFrameColumn"/> containing the new string values</returns>
+        /// <remarks>This function converts from UTF-8 to UTF-16 strings</remarks>
+        public ArrowStringDataFrameColumn Apply(Func<string, string> func)
+        {
+            ArrowStringDataFrameColumn ret = new ArrowStringDataFrameColumn(Name);
+            Encoding encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
+            for (long i = 0; i < Length; i++)
+            {
+                string cur = this[i];
+                string funcResult = func(cur);
+                ret.Append(funcResult != null ? encoding.GetBytes(funcResult) : default(ReadOnlySpan<byte>));
+            }
+            return ret;
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/Microsoft.Data.Analysis.Tests/DataFrameTests.cs b/tests/Microsoft.Data.Analysis.Tests/DataFrameTests.cs
index 44636ffd72..5e540305a5 100644
--- a/tests/Microsoft.Data.Analysis.Tests/DataFrameTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Microsoft.Data.Analysis.Tests/DataFrameTests.cs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ public static DataFrame MakeDataFrameWithTwoColumns(int length, bool withNulls =
             return dataFrame;
         }
 
-        public static DataFrameColumn CreateArrowStringColumn(int length, bool withNulls = true)
+        public static ArrowStringDataFrameColumn CreateArrowStringColumn(int length, bool withNulls = true)
         {
             byte[] dataMemory = new byte[length * 3];
             byte[] nullMemory = new byte[BitUtility.ByteCount(length)];
@@ -2180,6 +2180,39 @@ public void TestBinaryOperationsOnExplodedNumericColumns()
             Assert.False(reverseInPlace.ElementwiseEquals(reverse).All());
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public void TestArrowStringApply()
+        {
+            ArrowStringDataFrameColumn column = CreateArrowStringColumn(10);
+            ArrowStringDataFrameColumn ret = column.Apply((string cur) =>
+            {
+                if (cur != null)
+                {
+                    return cur + "123";
+                }
+                return null;
+            });
+            for (long i = 0; i < column.Length; i++)
+            {
+                if (column[i] != null)
+                {
+                    Assert.Equal(column[i] + "123", ret[i]);
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    Assert.Null(ret[i]);
+                }
+            }
+            Assert.Equal(1, ret.NullCount);
+
+            // Test null counts
+            ret = column.Apply((string cur) =>
+            {
+                return null;
+            });
+            Assert.Equal(column.Length, ret.NullCount);
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public void GetColumnTests()
         {