Joan Dougherty (2 March 1927 – 18 December 2020) was a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec.

Biography

Born in Montreal, Quebec, to Edward Mason, a physician, and Loretta O'Reilly, Dougherty studied at The Study, a private girls' school, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947 and a Masters in histology in 1950 from McGill University. She did post-graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in biophysics. Dougherty represented Jacques-Cartier in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1981 to 1987. She died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec.