Jenny Kirk (politician)


Jennifer Norah Kirk is a former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
She represented the Birkenhead electorate from the 1987 election; when she defeated the National candidate for the seat, Barry Gustafson, after Jim McLay retired.
In 1990 she was defeated by the new National candidate, Ian Revell.
In 1993, Kirk was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to local-body and community affairs.