Ruth Violet Lissant Dobson OBE (5 October 1918 – 14 December 1989) was an Australian public servant and diplomat.
[1][2] Dobson joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1943 as a research assistant in the Department of External Affairs,[3][4] having unsuccessfully applied for a cadetship earlier that year.
[1] In 1965, Dobson was seconded to Government House as private secretary to Lady Casey.
[1] Her 16 month secondment was followed by an appointment as First Secretary in the Australian Embassy in the Philippines.
[9] In late 2016, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade named one of its 16 meeting rooms in honour of Dobson, in recognition of her work as a pioneering female diplomat.