Anne Tolley | |
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![]() Tolley in 2019 | |
Commission Chair of the Tauranga City Council | |
Assumed office 9 February 2021 | |
Preceded by | Tenby Powell (as Mayor) |
Deputy Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives | |
In office 8 November 2017 – 17 October 2020 | |
Preceded by | Chester Borrows |
Succeeded by | Adrian Rurawhe |
26th Minister of Social Development | |
In office 13 October 2014 – 26 October 2017 | |
Prime Minister | John Key Bill English |
Preceded by | Paula Bennett |
Succeeded by | Carmel Sepuloni |
44th Minister of Education | |
In office 19 November 2008 – 25 November 2011 | |
Prime Minister | John Key |
Preceded by | Chris Carter |
Succeeded by | Hekia Parata |
Minister for Tertiary Education | |
In office 19 November 2008 – 27 January 2010[1] | |
Prime Minister | John Key |
Preceded by | Pete Hodgson |
Succeeded by | Steven Joyce |
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for East Coast | |
In office 17 September 2005 – 17 October 2020 | |
Preceded by | Janet Mackey |
Succeeded by | Kiri Allan |
Majority | 6,413 |
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for National Party list | |
In office 27 November 1999 – 27 July 2002 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Anne Merrilyn Hicks 1 March 1953 Wellington, New Zealand |
Political party | National Party |
Spouse |
Allan Hunt Tolley (m. 1973) |
Children | Three |
Occupation | Hotelier, Local Government |
Website | annetolley |
Anne Merrilyn Tolley JP (née Hicks; born 1 March 1953) is a New Zealand politician.
Tolley was elected as a member of the Napier City Council in 1986 and served as deputy mayor from 1989 until 1995. In 1999 she was elected to Parliament as a list MP representing the National Party. She was unseated in 2002 but returned in 2005 as the new East Coast MP. Between 2008 and 2017 she was a senior minister in the Fifth National Government, holding the offices of Minister of Education, Minister of Social Development, Minister of Corrections, Minister of Police and Minister of Local Government. She established Oranga Tamariki and was the first Minister for Children from 2016 to 2017.
She was Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2020. In 2021 she was appointed chair of the commission overseeing the Tauranga City Council.[2]
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