recognition In the 2020 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the community and governance. She is also a Justice of the Peace. Notes References 1946 births Living people People educated at Epsom Girls' Grammar School New Zealand Labour Party MPs Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates New Zealand schoolteachers Women members of the New Zealand House of Representatives Unsuccessful candidates in the 1996 New Zealand general election Auckland City Councillors New Zealand justices of the peace Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit