Máire Hendron | |
Constituency Am1: | Belfast East |
Assembly1: | Northern Ireland |
Term Start1: | 2 July 2019 |
Term End1: | 9 January 2020 |
Predecessor1: | Naomi Long |
Successor1: | Naomi Long |
Order2: | 34th Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast |
2Blankname2: | Lord Mayor |
2Namedata2: | Nichola Mallon |
Term Start2: | 1 June 2014 |
Term End2: | 1 June 2015 |
Predecessor2: | Christopher Stalford |
Successor2: | Guy Spence |
Office3: | Member of Belfast City Council |
Constituency3: | Pottinger |
Term Start3: | 5 May 2005 |
Term End3: | 22 May 2014 |
Predecessor3: | Joseph O'Donnell |
Successor3: | District abolished |
Nationality: | Northern Irish |
Party: | Alliance |
Occupation: | Politician |
Máire Hendron is an Alliance Party politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East from 2019 to 2020.
She was a Belfast City Councillor for the Pottinger DEA from 2005 to 2014, and served as Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2014 to 2015.
She was first elected to Belfast City Council in 2005, representing the Pottinger District.
Hendron was re-elected to the Council 2011, but failed to be elected onto the successor Titanic District at the 2014 local elections.
Hendron was appointed Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2014.[1]
Hendron was co-opted the Northern Ireland Assembly in July 2019 after the incumbent MLA, Naomi Long, was elected to the European Parliament .[2] She resigned as an MLA in January 2020.[3]