Judith Dawn Gordon (February 19, 1948 – December 1, 2020) was a provincial and municipal level politician from

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, Canada. She has served as a Member of the

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, and as mayor of

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Provincial political career

Gordon ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature after serving as mayor of Lacombe from 1989 to 1993. She won the new electoral district of

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in the

1993 Alberta general election The 1993 Alberta general election was held on June 15, 1993, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The Conservative government was re-elected, taking 51 seats out of 83 (61 percent of the seats) but only having support of 45 per ...

winning easily defeating five other candidates to earn her first term in provincial office. She was elected to her second term in the

1997 Alberta general election The 1997 Alberta general election was held on March 11, 1997, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Ralph Klein's Conservatives were re-elected, with increased number of seats in the Legislature. Liberal Official Opposition los ...

. Her popular vote slightly decreased but she won her seat with a much bigger margin. Gordon was re-elected to a landslide winning her third term in office in the

2001 Alberta general election The 2001 Alberta general election was held on March 12, 2001 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The incumbent Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, led by Ralph Klein, won a strong majority for its tenth consecutive term i ...

. She retired from her seat at dissolution in 2004 citing a hectic work schedule, the commute to

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and redistribution of her electoral district.

Mayor of Lacombe

Gordon had served her first term as mayor of Lacombe from 1989 to 1993 she left to run as a Member of the Alberta Legislature in 1993. She was elected to her second stint as mayor of Lacombe in the 2004 municipal election. She defeated incumbent mayor Bill McQuesten in a hotly contested three-way race winning by a plurality of 41 votes. Gordon was elected to her third term by acclamation in the 2007 Lacombe municipal election. She announced her retirement as mayor in 2010. Gordon died on December 1, 2020, at the age of 72.Judy Gordon's obituary
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