Michael C. Doherty is an environmental planner with extensive experience across three military services: Army, Marine Corps and Navy. Most recently he was the Environmental Planning Branch Team Leader within the Environmental Directorate of Headquarters, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), Washington, DC, from May 2011 until his retirement from Federal civilian service in December 2018.
Mike has over 42 years of experience in the environmental planning, compliance, and restoration fields. His other Federal civilian positions included Environmental Program Manager, U.S. Army Base Realignment and Closure Division, Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, Headquarters, Department of the Army, the Pentagon and Water Program Manager and Environmental Projects Program Manager, Office of the Assistant Commandant for Installations and Logistics, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Arlington, VA.
Outside of the Federal government, Mike worked for the Virginia State Water Control Board from February 1989 through August 1990, first in its Toxics Management Program and later as the Piedmont Regional Office Industrial Pretreatment Program Coordinator. Mike’s first position in environmental protection was as a certified Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator for the City of Oneonta, NY, from 1976 -1979.
Mike served in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Service Corps as a Sanitary Engineer officer from April 1981 until his retirement with the rank of colonel in January 2012 with nearly 31 years of commissioned service, 16 of which were on active duty, including deployments for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom I.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY; a Master of Environmental Pollution Control degree from the Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA; and a Master of Strategic Studies degree from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA.