Laura Dudas
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Orléans West-Innes Ward (from 2022)
November 3, 1978
Laura Dudas | |
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.jpg) Dudas in 2022 | |
| Ottawa City Councillor | |
| Assumed office December 1, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Jody Mitic |
| Constituency | Innes Ward (until 2022) Orléans West-Innes Ward (from 2022) |
| Deputy Mayor of Ottawa | |
| In office December, 2018 – December 1, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Bob Monette, Mark Taylor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Laura Czekaj November 3, 1978 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
| Spouse |
Mike Dudas (m. 2008) |
| Children | 3 |
Laura Lee Dudas (née Czekaj; born November 3, 1978)[1][2] is a Canadian politician and journalist who was elected to Ottawa City Council in the 2018 Ottawa municipal election representing Innes Ward. She was re-elected in the 2022 Ottawa municipal election in the renamed Orléans West-Innes Ward.
Dudas was born at St. Mary's General Hospital[1] in Kitchener, Ontario, the daughter of Richard Czekaj, a welder, and Linda Czekaj (nee Murchie), a Sears employee.[citation needed] She has a younger sister named Elizabeth. She grew up in Kitchener.
Dudas married Michael Dudas, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, in 2008 and together they are parents to two children and a stepdaughter. The family moved to Blackburn Hamlet in 2006.[3]
Education and early career
Dudas attended Conestoga College in Kitchener, graduating with a diploma in Journalism. Dudas started her journalism career at the Cambridge Reporter, in Cambridge, before joining the newsroom at the Stratford Beacon Herald, in Stratford, Ontario. In 2002, she became a journalist at the Ottawa Sun, working in the newsroom until 2010.[4]
Following her journalism career, Dudas worked for the City of Ottawa as a Communications Coordinator and Strategist until 2018.[5] Dudas served as the President of the Blackburn Community Association for eight years and was active on the board for 10 years.[6] She chaired the Cancer Chase in 2015, a fundraiser for The Ottawa Hospital Foundation.
Dudas was a member of the former Orléans Chamber of Commerce prior to its amalgamation with the Ottawa Board of Trade. Dudas has been an active supporter of the Heart of Orléans Business Improvement Association and as a City Councillor, sits on the BIA's Board of Directors as a non-voting member.[5]
She is an associate member of the Orléans Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.