Alexis Ord

{{Short description|Australian Lord Mayor}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder

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'''Alexis Ord''', also known as '''Lecki Ord''', was Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1987 to 1988. She was the first woman to hold that position.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wmnstime/1980to1988.htm |title=Women's Time – Taking Time |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030314082441/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wmnstime/1980to1988.htm |archivedate=14 March 2003 |accessdate=23 January 2016}}</ref> Ord has been involved in several community activist groups, such as the Friends of the ABC,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fabc.org.au/vic/links/photo_gallery/shier31_10_01.html |title=Jonathan Shier Departs |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030521215852/http://www.fabc.org.au/vic/links/photo_gallery/shier31_10_01.html |archivedate=21 May 2003 |accessdate=23 January 2016}}</ref> founding member of the Women's Planning Network,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Day |first1=Kirsten |last2=Raisbeck |first2=Peter |date=2021 |title=The Last Laugh and Its Afterlife: Emerging Narratives in 1970s Melbourne Architecture |journal=Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=336–356}}</ref> and the environmental movement.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.acmi.net.au/vid_lecki_ord.htm |title=Lecki Ord: First woman Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024164907/http://www.acmi.net.au/vid_lecki_ord.htm |archivedate=24 October 2010 |accessdate=23 January 2016}}</ref>

==Work==

Ord trained as an architect. Her interests were primarily in planning issues and environmental sustainability.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ord, Lecki |url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE4559b.htm|website=Australian Women's Register|accessdate=22 January 2016}}</ref> That interest became evident during her time as an architecture student when her Carlton terraced house was "the central driving force" behind the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia student conference in 1964.<ref>{{Cite web|title = New Materials, New Architecture, 1964, Melbourne|url = http://wp.architecture.com.au/people/congress-history/|website = architecture.com.au|accessdate = 2018-03-08|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180308231750/http://wp.architecture.com.au/people/congress-history/|archive-date = 8 March 2018|url-status = dead}}</ref>

Ord was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Lecki Ord |url=https://www.vic.gov.au/lecki-ord |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=State Government of Victoria |language=en-au}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-civ}} {{succession box | title=Lord Mayor of Melbourne | before=Trevor Huggard | after=Winsome McCaughey | years=1987–1988 | }} {{s-end}}

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