diff --git a/spec/API_specification/dataframe_api/column_object.py b/spec/API_specification/dataframe_api/column_object.py
index 11b96ef2..10ba9a35 100644
--- a/spec/API_specification/dataframe_api/column_object.py
+++ b/spec/API_specification/dataframe_api/column_object.py
@@ -641,3 +641,16 @@ def fill_nan(self, value: float | 'null', /) -> Column:
 
         """
         ...
+
+    def fill_null(self, value: Scalar, /) -> Column:
+        """
+        Fill null values with the given fill value.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        value : Scalar
+            Value used to replace any ``null`` values in the column with.
+            Must be of the Python scalar type matching the dtype of the column.
+
+        """
+        ...
diff --git a/spec/API_specification/dataframe_api/dataframe_object.py b/spec/API_specification/dataframe_api/dataframe_object.py
index c6fbb6f5..f56dae67 100644
--- a/spec/API_specification/dataframe_api/dataframe_object.py
+++ b/spec/API_specification/dataframe_api/dataframe_object.py
@@ -774,3 +774,35 @@ def fill_nan(self, value: float | 'null', /) -> DataFrame:
 
         """
         ...
+
+    def fill_null(
+        self, value: Scalar, /, *, column_names : list[str] | None = None
+    ) -> DataFrame:
+        """
+        Fill null values with the given fill value.
+
+        This method can only be used if all columns that are to be filled are
+        of the same dtype (e.g., all of ``Float64`` or all of string dtype).
+        If that is not the case, it is not possible to use a single Python
+        scalar type that matches the dtype of all columns to which
+        ``fill_null`` is being applied, and hence an exception will be raised.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        value : Scalar
+            Value used to replace any ``null`` values in the dataframe with.
+            Must be of the Python scalar type matching the dtype(s) of the dataframe.
+        column_names : list[str] | None
+            A list of column names for which to replace nulls with the given
+            scalar value. If ``None``, nulls will be replaced in all columns.
+
+        Raises
+        ------
+        TypeError
+            If the columns of the dataframe are not all of the same kind.
+        KeyError
+            If ``column_names`` contains a column name that is not present in
+            the dataframe.
+
+        """
+        ...