Joanne Campbell (politician)

Joanne Campbell
Toronto City Councillor for Ward 7
In office 1982–1985 Serving with David Reville
Preceded by	Gordon Cressy
Succeeded by	Barbara Hall
Metro Toronto Councillor for Ward 7
In office 1982 – September 1987
Preceded by	Gordon Cressy
Succeeded by	Roger Hollander
Personal details
Born	March 25, 1948 Montreal, Quebec
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	New Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Gordon Cressy
Children	Joe Cressy

Joanne Campbell (born March 25, 1948 in Montreal, Quebec) is a former Canadian politician, who served on Toronto City Council from 1982 to 1985 and on Metro Toronto Council from 1982 to 1988.

Campbell was born in Montreal and raised in the nearby suburb of Hudson, where she was a childhood friend of her future Toronto City Council colleague Jack Layton.

Prior to her election to council, Campbell worked in the office of councillor Gordon Cressy as an executive assistant. After Cressy announced that he would not run for reelection in the 1982 municipal election, Campbell and Barbara Hall competed for the Metro New Democratic Party endorsement to be its second candidate alongside David Reville in the Ward 7 race. Campbell won the endorsement. In the official election campaign, the strategy was that Reville was campaigning as the "senior alderman" candidate, who would receive more votes and thereby serve simultaneously as the ward's representative to Metro Toronto Council, while Campbell was the "junior" candidate who would serve only on the city council. On election day, however, although both won the election it was Campbell, not Reville, who finished with the higher vote total and became the "senior" alderman.

Campbell later married Cressy in 1983.

Early in her term in office, Campbell chaired a task force on housing for low income singles in Metro Toronto, which resulted in eligibility for subsidized housing for single people in Ontario, and collaborated with June Rowlands to lobby for improved childcare services in the city. Campbell and other NDP-affiliated city councillors — including Reville, Richard Gilbert, Dorothy Thomas, Joe Pantalone and Jack Layton — also collaborated on a job creation plan at the height of the early 1980s recession.

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