Vi Jordan

{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Vi Jordan | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|AM}} | image = | caption = | constituency_AM1 = Ipswich West | assembly1 = Queensland Legislative | term_start1 = 28 May 1966 | term_end1 = 7 December 1974 | predecessor1 = Ivor Marsden | successor1 = Albert Hales | birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|6|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Ipswich, Queensland, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|1982|5|7|1913|6|29|df=y}} | death_place = Ipswich, Queensland, Australia | resting_place = Ipswich General Cemetery | birth_name = Ellen Violet Perrett | party = Labor | other_party = | spouse = David Jordan (m.1932 d.1967) | alma_mater = | occupation = Political advisor | relations = }}

'''Ellen Violet Jordan''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (née '''Perrett'''; 29 June 1913 – 7 May 1982) was an Australian politician. She was the second woman elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and the first representing the Labor Party.<ref name=qp>{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=924323316|access-date= 8 February 2015}}</ref>

== Early life == Jordan was born in Ipswich to James Berties Perrett and Anne Jane Jordan, ''née'' Brown. She attended Brassall State School and then Ipswich Girls' Grammar School before earning a Diploma of Education and becoming a schoolteacher. On 14 June 1932 she married David Jordan, with whom she had two children.<ref name=qp/>

== Politics == Joining the Australian Labor Party in 1946, Jordan was a delegate to the Labor-in-Politics Convention in 1956. She was the inaugural president of the Women's Central Committee Queensland from 1956 to 1967 and secretary of the Ipswich Labor Party Executive from 1958 to 1965. In 1961 she became the first woman elected to Ipswich City Council, serving until 1967.<ref name=qp/>

In 1966 she was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Ipswich West. She was the first Labor woman elected to the Assembly, and the first woman in parliament since Irene Longman's defeat in 1932. Jordan was defeated in 1974, after which she became the inaugural president of the Australian ALP Women's Executive.<ref name=qp/>

== Later life == Jordan died at Ipswich in 1982. She was buried in the Ipswich General Cemetery alongside her husband who had predeceased her in 1967.<ref name=adb>[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jordan-ellen-violet-vi-12708 Jordan, Mrs Ellen Violet (Vi) (1913–1982)] — Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 8 February 2015.</ref><ref name=burial>[http://www.australiancemeteries.com/qld/ipswich/presbyterian_newc.htm Presbyterian C New Section] — Australian Cemeteries. Retrieved 8 February 2015.</ref>

<gallery caption="" class="center" > File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-Ellen Violet JORDAN grave site-2021.jpg|Grave plot File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-Ellen Violet JORDAN headstone-2021.jpg|Headstone </gallery>

== Legacy == The electoral district of Jordan created in the 2017 Queensland state electoral redistribution was named after her.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://ecq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/70956/26.5.17_Extraordinary-Gazette_QRC-Final-Determination.pdf|title=Determination of Queensland's Legislative Assembly Electoral Districts|last=Queensland Redistribution Commission|date=26 May 2017|website=Queensland Government Gazette|page=183|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029095929/http://ecq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/70956/26.5.17_Extraordinary-Gazette_QRC-Final-Determination.pdf|archive-date=29 October 2017|url-status=live|access-date=29 October 2017}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-qld}} {{succession box | title=Member for Ipswich West | before=Ivor Marsden | after=Albert Hales | years=1966–1974}} {{s-end}}

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