{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Joan Carson | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = 150px | alt = | caption = | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly<br/>for Fermanagh & South Tyrone | assembly = Northern Ireland | majority = | term_start = 25 June 1998 | term_end = 26 November 2003 | predecessor = ''Constituency created'' | successor = Arlene Foster | office1 = Member of Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council | constituency1 = Dungannon Town | term_start1 = 21 May 1997 | term_end1 = 7 June 2001 | predecessor1 = Leslie Holmes | successor1 = Ken Maginnis | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1935|01|29|df=yes}} | birth_place = Enniskillen, Northern Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = | party = Ulster Unionist Party | other_party = | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = Stranmillis University College | occupation = | profession = Teacher | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Joan Carson''' (born 29 January 1935) is a former Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician in Northern Ireland who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 1998 to 2003.
==Background== Born in Enniskillen, Carson studied at Enniskillen Collegiate School and Stranmillis College before working as a teacher. In 1997 she was elected to Dungannon Borough Council for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and at the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, she was elected in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.<ref>[http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs/jcarson.htm Biography – Joan Carson] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926052904/http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs/jcarson.htm |date=26 September 2006 }}, Northern Ireland Assembly</ref>
Carson stood down from her council seat in 2001<ref>[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/lgdungannon.htm Dungannon Borough Council Elections 1993 – 2005], Northern Ireland Elections</ref> and from her Assembly seat at the 2003 election.<ref>[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/afst.htm Fermanagh and South Tyrone] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609235105/http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/afst.htm |date=9 June 2009 }}, Northern Ireland Elections</ref> She is currently a UUP party officer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uup.org/people_officers.htm |title=Ulster Unionist Party - for All of Us |accessdate=2008-04-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513201220/http://www.uup.org/people_officers.htm |archivedate=13 May 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
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