Nichola Mallon
| Nichola Mallon | |
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Mallon as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2014
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Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast North |
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Assumed office 5 May 2016 |
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| 59th Lord Mayor of Belfast | |
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In office 2 June 2014 – 1 April 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Máirtín Ó Muilleoir |
| Succeeded by | Arder Carson |
| Councillor on Belfast City Council | |
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Assumed office 2010 |
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| Constituency | Oldpark |
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23 August 1979 Belfast |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | SDLP |
| Spouse(s) | Brendan Scott (m.2013) |
| Children | Elena |
| Residence | Crumlin, Belfast |
| Alma mater |
Trinity College, Dublin Queen's University Belfast |
Nichola Mallon (born 23 August 1979) is an SDLP politician from Northern Ireland.
Nichola Mallon was born in Belfast in 1979. Her parents were a printer and a cook and she grew up in the Ardoyne district of North Belfast.
She attended Mercy Primary School followed by St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls. She read Economics and Politics at Trinity College, Dublin and graduated with a BA (Hons), followed by an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University Belfast.
When she left QUB, she joined the civil service before moving to the General Medical Council and then to a job with the SDLP.
She is married to Brendan Scott and has one child.
Her family were involved in the trade union movement and she took part in May Day rallies as a girl. At school she became more interested in politics and was attracted to the SDLP. In 2010 she was co-opted by the SDLP onto Belfast City Council to replace Alban Maginness in the Oldpark (District Electoral Area). In 2014, she won the seat in her own right, polling just less than 1,000 first preferences. In 2013, she was appointed a special adviser to the SDLP's Environment Minister Mark H Durkan, but stood down from that position when elected Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2014. She served as the Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2014 to 2015, the first female Irish nationalist politician to hold the position.
She was elected a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast North in 2016 and re-elected in 2017, increasing the SDLP vote to 5,431 first preferences .
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