Jude Patrick Dougherty KSG (July 21, 1930 – March 6, 2021) was an American philosopher, Dean Emeritus of the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, and Editor-in-Chief for 44 years of The Review of Metaphysics.

Jude was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Edward Timothy Dougherty and Cecelia Anastasia Loew.

[2] While a student at Catholic University, Jude met Patricia Ann Regan, who was studying nursing.

In 1960, Jude received his Doctor of Philosophy from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Dougherty was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Bellarmine College from 1960 to 1966.

In 1967, Dougherty was named the first lay Dean of the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, a position he held for over 30 years.

Dougherty's published works include The Logic of Religion; The Good Life and its Pursuit; The Nature of Scientific Explanation; Wretched Aristotle: Using the Past to Rescue the Future; Western Creed, Western Identity: Essays in Legal and Social Philosophy; Jacques Maritain: An Intellectual Profile; Briefly Considered; Interpretations; Approaches to Morality; The Impact of Vatican II; The Theological Directions of the Ecumenical Movement; Recent American Naturalism: An Exposition and Critique; and Religion - Gesellschaft - Demokratie: Ausgewählte Aufsätze.