Wendy Edmond

{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = '''The Hon''' | name = Wendy Edmond | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | constituency_AM1 = Mount Coot-tha | assembly1 = Queensland Legislative | term_start1 = 2 December 1989 | term_end1 = 7 February 2004 | predecessor1 = Lyle Schuntner | successor1 = Andrew Fraser | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|4|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = Wendy Marjorie Wood | party = Labor | other_party = | spouse = David Edmond (m.1972) | children = | alma_mater = University of Queensland | occupation = nuclear medicine Technologist | relations = }}

'''Wendy Marjorie Edmond''', ''née'' '''Wood''' (born 27 April 1946) is a former Australian politician. Born in Bundaberg, she was a nuclear medicine technologist before entering politics. She was also a member of Amnesty International and the Wildlife Preservation Society, and had served as president of the Rainsworth Branch of the Labor Party. She married university lecturer David Edmond on 30 December 1972. In 1989, she was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Mount Coot-tha. When Labor won government in 1998, she was appointed Minister for Health, and in 2001 was given additional responsibility for Women's Policy. Edmond retired from politics at the 2004 state election.<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=2589793121|accessdate= 10 February 2015}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-qld}} {{succession box | title=Member for Mount Coot-tha | before=Lyle Schuntner | after=Andrew Fraser | years=1989–2004}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Edmond, Wendy}} Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland Category:21st-century Australian politicians Category:21st-century Australian women politicians Category:Women members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly