Brenda Halloran is a former mayor of

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. She was first elected in the 2006 municipal election, defeating incumbent mayor

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and former mayor Brian Turnbull. She was re-elected in 2010.

Personal

Halloran was born in

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to James 'Jim' (July 6, 1929 - April 21, 2005) and Doreen Halloran, as the first of three children. Her two younger brothers Michael and Jeffrey are an engineer and a small business owner respectively. The family settled in Waterloo in 1964, three years after the youngest son, Jeffrey, was born. Halloran graduated from

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, then studied nursing at

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(RN 1976) Prior to her election to the mayoralty, Halloran worked as a dispute resolution advisor and mediator for the

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from 1990 to 2006. Halloran returned to Waterloo in 1990 after living in Toronto and Florida during her earlier nursing career.< Halloran also took courses at

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and obtained a certificate in conflict resolution from

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