Judith Margaret Farnworth (born 25 April 1966) is a British diplomat. She was educated at Manchester High School for Girls, the University of Durham (BA Honours in Russian with Philosophy, 1988) and at the University of East Anglia (MA in International relations, 1990). She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office after graduation in 1991, first as Senior Research Analyst at the Research and Analsysis Department in London. From 2000 to 2004 she was head of the political section of the British Embassy in the Ukraine. Deputy Head of Mission and Her Mayesty's Consul she was from 2005 to 2008 at the British Embassy in Riga and from 2008 to 2012 in Kyiv, returning to the Ukraine.