Marama Fox

Marama Fox MP
Marama Fox in December 2015
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Maori Party List
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 September 2014
Co-Leader of the Māori Party
Incumbent
Assumed office October 2014 Co-leader with Te Ururoa Flavell
Preceded by	Tariana Turia
Personal details
Political party	Māori Party

Marama Kahu Fox is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the Māori Party. Following her election to parliament, she was named Māori Party co-leader alongside Te Ururoa Flavell, replacing party founder Tariana Turia.

When Fox was born, the youngest of five children, the family lived in the Porirua suburb of Cannons Creek. Her father, Ernest Richard "Ernie" Smith, was pākehā and a teacher. Her mother, Frances Smith, founded a pre-school. In the early 1970s, the family lived in Christchurch, where Fox attended Elmwood Primary School in Merivale, Heaton Normal Intermediate, and then Christchurch Girls' High School.

Fox lives in Masterton and has nine children. Prior to becoming an MP, she worked as a teacher and had been in education for 26 years. Fox has described herself as being "a badge wearing Mormon."

At the 2014 election Fox stood in the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti electorate, before being elected via the party list. Fox is the Māori Party's first-ever list MP. Fox was appointed co-leader of the Maori Party after she became the first List MP for the Māori Party and succeeded Tariana Turia as co-leader.