Judy Keall
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Judith Mary Keall (née Dixon, born 10 January 1942) is a former New Zealand politician. She was an MP from 1984 to 1990, and again from 1993 until her retirement in 2002, representing the Labour Party.
Biography
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Dixon<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was born in Timaru on 10 May 1942.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
She was first elected to Parliament in the 1984 election, winning the North Shore seat of Glenfield.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She was re-elected in the 1987 election, but in the 1990 election, she was defeated by National's Peter Hilt. In 1993, Keall was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In the 1993 election, she returned to Parliament as MP for the lower North Island seat of Horowhenua. After reentering parliament she supported Mike Moore when he was successfully challenged for the leadership by deputy leader Helen Clark.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She was appointed by Clark as Labour's spokesperson for consumer affairs and senior citizens.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the 1996 election, when the Horowhenua electorate was abolished, she was elected as MP for the new Otaki electorate.<ref name="Swing seats">Template:Cite news</ref> She was re-elected in the 1999 election, but at the 2002 election, she chose to retire from Parliament. She was one of only two electorate MPs who retired in 2002; the other was Labour's Geoff Braybrooke.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Keall was succeeded by her former Parliamentary Secretary, Darren Hughes.<ref name="Swing seats" />
Keall chaired Parliament's health select committee<ref name="retirement" /> and she was the key proponent of legislation that would make bars and restaurants smoke-free.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
Keall was separated from her husband Graeme for seven years and part of her retirement from politics was that she could spend more time with him.<ref name="retirement">Template:Cite news</ref>
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