| Honorific-Prefix: | Cllr |
| Janette Williamson | |
| Party: | Labour |
| Office: | Leader of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Term Start: | 28 September 2020[1] |
| Predecessor: | Pat Hackett |
| Office2: | Labour Party Group Leader on Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Deputy2: | Tom Usher |
| Term Start2: | 29 June 2020[2] |
| Predecessor2: | Pat Hackett |
| Office3: | Deputy Mayor of the Liverpool City Region |
| Term Label3: | In role |
| Termstart3: | 2021 |
| Termend3: | 2023 |
| Successor3: | David Baines |
| Office4: | Wirral Metropolitan Borough Councillor for Liscard |
| Term Start4: | 3 May 2012 |
| Predecessor4: | James Keeley |
| Majority4: | 1,485 (42.1%) |
| Birth Name: | Janette Williamson |
| Birth Date: | 25 August 1965[3] |
| Residence: | Port Sunlight, Wirral, UK |
| Term End: | 2023 |
| Succeeded: | Paul Stuart |
| Succeeded2: | Paul Stuart |
| Termend2: | 2023 |
Janette Williamson (born 1965), is a British Labour politician and former Leader of Wirral Council.[4] She was the first woman to lead the Council in 29 years.[1]
She was elected leader of the Labour group on Wirral Council on 29 June 2020, beating fellow councillors Gillian Wood and Yvonne Nolan.[5] Nolan was last woman to lead the Council between 1990 and 1991.
Williamson became Leader of the Council in a virtual meeting on 28 September with the Council governing under a Committee system.[6]
in 2021 Williamson was appointed by Mayor Steve Rotheram as the first, Deputy Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, a post which she held until 2023, She is the only woman to have ever held the position.
In 2012 Williamson was forced to apologise after she was found to have posted an offensive post on social media regarding the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. [7]