Judy Junor

{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]] | honorific_suffix = [[Executive Council of Saskatchewan|ECS]] | name = Judy Junor | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1948|7|27}} | birth_place = [[North Battleford]], [[Saskatchewan]] | assembly = Saskatchewan Legislative | constituency_AM = [[Saskatoon Eastview]] | term_start = June 24, 1998 | term_end = October 10, 2011 | predecessor = [[Bob Pringle (politician)|Bob Pringle]] | successor = [[Corey Tochor]] | party = [[Saskatchewan New Democratic Party|New Democratic Party]] | occupation = Nurse }} '''Judy Junor''' (born July 27, 1948) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] provincial [[politician]]. Judy was a [[Saskatchewan New Democratic Party|New Democratic Party]] (NDP) member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan]] for the constituency of [[Saskatoon Eastview]].

Born in [[North Battleford]], she grew up in [[Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|Saskatoon]] and received a diploma from St. Paul's School of Nursing in 1969. She worked as a nurse in Saskatoon and served as president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses and as vice-president of the [[Saskatchewan Federation of Labour]].<ref name="quiring"/>

She was first elected to the legislature in a 1998 [[by-election]] following the resignation of [[Bob Pringle (politician)|Bob Pringle]]. Junor served in the provincial cabinet as associate minister of Health, as Provincial Secretary and as Minister of Learning.<ref name="quiring">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y746xOWGfcUC&pg=PA117 |title=Saskatchewan Politicians: Lives Past and Present |page=117 |year=2004 |publisher=Canadian Plains Research Center Press |last=Quiring |first=Brett |ISBN=0889771650 |accessdate=2012-09-16}}</ref>

She lost in the 2011 election to [[Corey Tochor]] of the Saskatchewan Party.

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210154403/http://www.judyjunor.ca/page.php?9 Judy Junor]

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