Kim Rudd


Kim E. Rudd is a Canadian politician and entrepreneur elected to the House of Commons of Canada to represent the riding of Northumberland - Peterborough South in the 2015 Canadian federal election. She ran for reelection and was defeated in the 2019 Canadian federal election by more than 2,500 votes.
Rudd is past president and owner of Willis College in Cobourg, co-founder of Cook School Day Care, and a past president of the Cobourg Chamber of Commerce.

Political career

Kim Rudd served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources alongside being MP for Northumberland-Peterborough South from 2015-2018 when she announced she chose to step down to better represent her riding. While stepping down from Parliamentary Secretary, Rudd declared she would not be ruling out future opportunities for more responsibility in future government.
On October 1, 2019, Kim Rudd was named the chair of the Parliamentary Health Research Caucus and will serve as a member of the standing committee on finance.

Personal life

Rudd has stated that she faced several challenges during her childhood. She had to take on many household responsibilities while she was about 9–10 years old due to her mother taking on a demanding job after an accident caused Rudd's alcoholic father to have to quit his job. Her mother died in 1998 and had run for the New Democratic Party in Ontario during the 1970s. Rudd is currently married to husband, Tom Rudd, with whom she has two daughters, Alison and Stefanie.
Before becoming involved in politics as a career, Rudd was a long-time advocate of childcare and previously worked on the creation of daycares in Cobourg.
In 2011, Rudd was among six award recipients of the RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award. Contributions to economies locally, nationally, and globally were among the criteria for winning the award.

Electoral record