The Hon. Marguerite S. Dougherty is a judge for the Kings County Criminal Court in the Second Judicial District of New York. She was appointed to the Criminal Court in 2015 by the Hon. A. Gail Prudenti, former Chief Administrative Judge of the State of New York. Originally, Judge Dougherty sat on the New York County Civil Court after receiving an appointment by Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2015. She was reappointed to the seat by Mayor de Blasio in 2016.
She graduated with her B.S. in special studies from St. Francis College in 1996. She went on to earn her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2001.
While attending law school, Dougherty served as a court clerk specialist for the Kings County Supreme Court from 1996 to 2001. After graduating, she began a year-long clerkship with the Hon. Sidney H. Stein with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
After completing her clerkship, Dougherty entered into private practice, joining the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison LLP, where she practiced as an associate for six years. Then, in 2008, she became an attorney with Jones Day. In 2012, she joined JP Morgan Chase, where she started as vice president and assistant general counsel of securities litigation before then being named executive director there in 2014. Dougherty remained in that capacity until her appointment to the Civil Court in 2015.
Judge Dougherty has served as a board member of Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert and Day One. She has also served as the director of the Brooklyn Law School Alumni Association.