Kathleen Ann Doherty (born 1963)[1] is an American diplomat and former Ambassador of the United States of America to Cyprus.

[3] Doherty earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1985.

[4] As part of her masters program, she studied Eastern Europe and communism, particularly Hungary and East Germany, including the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Doherty was a journalist from 1985 to 1989, writing for American Banker, The Potomac News, The Washington Post, Business and Health Magazine and The Naisbitt Group.

She served in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and held assignments in London, Rome, and Moscow.