Julia Sheehan Donoghue (born December 13, 1943) is a retired American lawyer and Republican politician from Merrill, Wisconsin.
She is a granddaughter of Illinois politician and judge Francis E. Donoghue, and a descendant of Merrill pioneer Leonard Niles Anson.
Donoghue graduated from Merrill High School in 1962 and went on to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she earned her bachelor's degree in political science in 1967.
[5] During the 1983 legislative term, she ran in a special election for Wisconsin Senate to replace Clifford Krueger, who had retired unexpectedly.
Rather than running for another term in the Assembly in 1984, Donoghue left politics and entered law school at her alma mater.
During the 2000 Republican Party presidential primaries, she was active in supporting the campaign of Arizona senator John McCain.