Women in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
List of women in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Names in bold indicate women who have been appointed as Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries during their time in Parliament. Names in italics indicate entry into Parliament through a by-election and * symbolises members that have sat as members in both the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council.

Women in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

Section Title: List of women in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Table Section Text: Names in bold indicate women who have been appointed as Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries during their time in Parliament. Names in italics indicate entry into Parliament through a by-election and * symbolises members that have sat as members in both the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council.

#	Name	Party	Electoral district	Period of service

1	Millicent Preston-Stanley	Nationalist	Eastern Suburbs	30 May 1925 – 7 September 1927 (defeated)

2	Mary Quirk	Labor	Balmain	14 January 1939 – 22 May 1950 (defeated)

3	Lilian Fowler	Lang Labor	Newtown	27 May 1944 – 22 May 1950 (defeated)

4	Mary Meillon	Liberal	Murray	10 October 1973 – 9 June 1980 (died)

5	Rosemary Foot	Liberal	Vaucluse	7 October 1978 – 13 February 1986 (retired)

6	Janice Crosio	Labor	Fairfield	19 September 1981 – 16 February 1990 (resigned)

7	Wendy Machin	National	Gloucester Manning Port Macquarie	12 October 1985 – 28 August 1996 (resigned)

8	Pam Allan	Labor	Wentworthville Blacktown	19 March 1988 – 24 March 2007 (retired)

Anne Cohen	Liberal	Minchinbury Badgerys Creek	19 March 1988 – 25 March 1995 (defeated)

Dawn Fraser	Independent	Balmain	19 March 1988 – 25 May 1991 (defeated)

Clover Moore	Independent	Bligh Sydney	19 March 1988 – 20 September 2012 (resigned)

Sandra Nori	Labor	McKell Port Jackson	19 March 1988 – 24 March 2007 (retired)

13	Robyn Read	Independent	North Shore	5 November 1988 – 25 May 1991 (defeated)

14	Deirdre Grusovin *	Labor	Heffron	23 June 1990 – 22 March 2003 (retired)

15	Kerry Chikarovski	Liberal	Lane Cove	25 May 1991 – 22 March 2003 (retired)

Liz Kernohan	Liberal	Camden	25 May 1991 – 22 March 2003 (retired)

Faye Lo Po'	Labor	Penrith	25 May 1991 – 22 March 2003 (retired)

18	Jillian Skinner	Liberal	North Shore	5 February 1994 – 20 February 2017 (resigned)

19	Gabrielle Harrison	Labor	Parramatta	27 August 1994 – 22 March 2003 (retired)

20	Reba Meagher	Labor	Cabramatta	22 October 1994 – 17 September 2008 (resigned)

21	Marie Andrews	Labor	Peats Gosford	25 March 1995 – 26 March 2011 (retired)

Diane Beamer	Labor	Badgerys Creek Mulgoa	25 March 1995 – 26 March 2011 (retired)

Marie Ficarra*	Liberal	Georges River	25 March 1995 – 27 March 1999 (defeated)

Jill Hall	Labor	Swansea	25 March 1995 – 1 September 1998 (resigned)

25	Peta Seaton	Liberal	Southern Highlands	25 May 1996 – 24 March 2007 (retired)

26	Lorna Stone	Liberal	Sutherland	20 December 1997 – 27 March 1999 (defeated)

27	Cherie Burton	Labor	Kogarah	27 March 1999 – 28 March 2015 (retired)

Katrina Hodgkinson	National	Burrinjuck Cootamundra	27 March 1999 – 1 September 2017 (resigned)

Alison Megarrity	Labor	Menai	27 March 1999 – 26 March 2011 (retired)

Marianne Saliba	Labor	Illawarra	27 March 1999 – 24 March 2007 (retired)

31	Barbara Perry	Labor	Auburn	8 September 2001 – 28 March 2015 (retired)

32	Judy Hopwood	Liberal	Hornsby	23 February 2002 – 26 March 2011 (retired)

33	Gladys Berejiklian	Liberal	Willoughby	22 March 2003 –

Linda Burney	Labor	Canterbury	22 March 2003 – 6 May 2016 (resigned)

Angela D'Amore	Labor	Drummoyne	22 March 2003 – 26 March 2011 (retired)

Tanya Gadiel	Labor	Parramatta	22 March 2003 – 26 March 2011 (retired)

Shelley Hancock	Liberal	South Coast	22 March 2003 –

Noreen Hay	Labor	Wollongong	22 March 2003 – 31 August 2016 (resigned)

Virginia Judge	Labor	Strathfield	22 March 2003 – 26 March 2011 (defeated)

Kristina Keneally	Labor	Heffron	22 March 2003 – 29 June 2012 (resigned)

Karyn Paluzzano	Labor	Penrith	22 March 2003 – 7 May 2010 (resigned)

42	Dawn Fardell	Independent	Dubbo	20 November 2004 – 26 March 2011 (defeated)

43	Carmel Tebbutt*	Labor	Marrickville	17 September 2005 – 28 March 2015 (retired)

44	Verity Firth	Labor	Balmain	24 March 2007 – 26 March 2011 (defeated)

Pru Goward	Liberal	Goulburn	24 March 2007 – 23 March 2019 (retired)

Sonia Hornery	Labor	Wallsend	24 March 2007 –

Jodi McKay	Labor	Newcastle Strathfield	24 March 2007 – 26 March 2011 (defeated) 28 March 2015 –

Lylea McMahon	Labor	Shellharbour	24 March 2007 – 26 March 2011 (retired)

49	Tanya Davies	Liberal	Mulgoa	26 March 2011 –

Melanie Gibbons	Liberal	Menai Holsworthy	26 March 2011 –

Tania Mihailuk	Labor	Bankstown	26 March 2011 –

Robyn Parker *	Liberal	Maitland	26 March 2011 – 28 March 2015 (retired)

Roza Sage	Liberal	Blue Mountains	26 March 2011 – 28 March 2015 (defeated)

Gabrielle Upton	Liberal	Vaucluse	26 March 2011 –

Anna Watson	Labor	Shellharbour	26 March 2011 –

Leslie Williams	National	Port Macquarie	26 March 2011 –

57	Jodie Harrison	Labor	Charlestown	26 October 2014 –

58	Jenny Aitchison	Labor	Maitland	28 March 2015 –

Prue Car	Labor	Londonderry	28 March 2015 –

Yasmin Catley	Labor	Swansea	28 March 2015 –

Trish Doyle	Labor	Blue Mountains	28 March 2015 –

Julia Finn	Labor	Granville	28 March 2015 –

Jo Haylen	Labor	Summer Hill	28 March 2015 –

Jenny Leong	Greens	Newtown	28 March 2015 –

Eleni Petinos	Liberal	Miranda	28 March 2015 –

Melinda Pavey*	National	Oxley	28 March 2015 –

Kathy Smith	Labor	Gosford	28 March 2015 – 14 February 2017 (resigned)

Tamara Smith	Greens	Ballina	28 March 2015 –

Kate Washington	Labor	Port Stephens	28 March 2015 –

70	Sophie Cotsis*	Labor	Canterbury	12 November 2016 –

71	Liesl Tesch	Labor	Gosford	8 April 2017 –

Felicity Wilson	Liberal	North Shore	8 April 2017 –

73	Steph Cooke	National	Cootamundra	14 October 2017 –

74	Helen Dalton	SFF	Murray	23 March 2019 –

Wendy Lindsay	Liberal	East Hills	23 March 2019 –

Marjorie O'Neill	Labor	Coogee	23 March 2019 –

Robyn Preston	Liberal	Hawkesbury	23 March 2019 –

Janelle Saffin*	Labor	Lismore	23 March 2019 –

Wendy Tuckerman	Liberal	Goulburn	23 March 2019 –

Lynda Voltz*	Labor	Auburn	23 March 2019 –

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Mary Quirk held the seat of Balmain for Labor in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

final_sentence: Mary Quirk held the seat of Balmain for Labor in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.