Cathy Curry
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Cathy Curry | |
|---|---|
| Ottawa City Councillor | |
| Assumed office November 12, 2021[1] | |
| Preceded by | Jenna Sudds |
| Constituency | Kanata North Ward |
| Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Trustee | |
| In office 2006–2012 | |
| Preceded by | Jim Libbey |
| Succeeded by | Christine Boothby[2] |
| Constituency | Zone 2 (Kanata) |
| Chair of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board | |
| In office December 2009 – December 1, 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Lynn Scott |
| Succeeded by | Jennifer McKenzie[3] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Children | 4[4] |
Cathy Ann Greene Curry[1] (born c. 1968)[5] is a Canadian politician. She is currently the city councillor for Kanata North Ward on Ottawa City Council, having been appointed to that position on November 10, 2021.[6]
Curry was raised in Scarborough, Ontario,[7] the daughter of an Italian mother and Newfoundlander father.[8] She was educated at the University of Western Ontario, where she received a bachelor's of English Language and Literature, and at Niagara University in Lewiston, New York where she received a Masters of Science in Education.[6] Following her university education, Curry taught at Timothy Eaton Business and Technical Institute in Scarborough, then moved to Boston with her husband, who was attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She spent two years there, where she worked at MIT.[8]
Curry moved to Kanata, where her husband grew up,[8] in 1992.[7][9] Curry was an English literature high school teacher at Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School, Sir Robert Borden High School, A.Y. Jackson Secondary School and West Carleton Secondary School[7] until 1999, when she retired to spend more time with her family.[4] Following her retirement, she served as a school council chair.[7]