Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Sharon Halford | |
Constituency Am: | the Camp |
Assembly: | Falkland Islands Legislative |
Term Start: | 5 November 2009 |
Term End: | 7 November 2013 |
Predecessor: | Mike Rendell |
Office1: | Member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Council for Stanley |
Term Start1: | 14 October 1993 |
Term End1: | 22 November 2001 |
Predecessor1: | Fred Robson |
Successor1: | Richard Cockwell |
Birth Date: | 27 November 1953 |
Birth Place: | Stanley, Falkland Islands |
Party: | Nonpartisan |
Spouse: | Rodney "John" Halford |
Children: | 2 daughters |
Sharon Halford (born 27 November 1953) is a Falkland Islands politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Camp constituency from 2009 until 2013. Halford was also a Member of the Legislative Council from 1993–2001 for Stanley.[1]
In 2011 Halford and her husband represented the islands at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.[2] She also attended the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council meeting in London in 2012 with Jan Cheek[3] and in 2013 Halford took part in a campaign to promote the interests of the Falkland Islanders following the sovereignty referendum.[4] This included representing the Falklands at the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization in New York City[5] and at the annual conference of the British Islands and Mediterranean Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.[6] Halford stood for re-election in November 2013, but lost her seat to Phyl Rendell.[7]