Ann Hercus

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Dame Margaret Ann Hercus, DCMG (born 1942) is a New Zealand politician and diplomat.

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Auckland and a law degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury.

She was the Member of Parliament for Lyttelton from 1978 to 1987, and the Minister of Social Welfare, Police and Women's Affairs from 1984 to 1987.

From 1988 to 1990, she was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations. In 1998, she was appointed Deputy Special Representative and Chief of Mission of the United Nations operation in Cyprus. She resigned for family reasons in 1999.^{[citation needed]}

In 2005, it was alleged that she leaked information on salary rates of senior TVNZ staff, in order to embarrass senior TVNZ executives.^{[citation needed]} Following these allegations, she resigned from the board of TVNZ.^{[citation needed]}