Councillor Lorraine Wearne

Epping Ward

Phone: 0416 035 817

E-mail: lwearne@cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au

Committee Membership

Terms as Councillor

Terms as Lord Mayor

Service Milestones

25 Years of Service as Councillor in January 2022

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About Councillor Lorraine Wearne

Personal

Self-employed solicitor
Former Councillor – Parramatta City Council 1995–2016.
Legal secretary and paralegal for approx. 25 years
Practicing solicitor 1992–present
Part-time lecturer Parramatta Adult Education College 1998–2006.
Love reading, good wine and food, music of all descriptions. Am a hack golfer and play computer games. Am babysitter extraordinaire - I like slippery dips, swings and a good mud fight. I have parachuted from a plane, whitewater rafter the Zambezi River in Africa, climbed Machu Picchu and been run aground on a glacier cruise in Chile.

Political career

Elected to Parramatta City Council September, 1995 and re-elected 1999, 2004, 2008 and 2012.
First female Lord Mayor of Parramatta City Council 2000-2001 and 2011-2012. Deputy Mayor 2009.
Member of Executive of Australian Local Government Women's Assoc. (NSW) for 3 years.
National President of Australian Local Government Women's Assoc. - 2 years (1999-2000).
Awarded Parramatta Woman of the Year 2000.
Recipient of the Centenary Medal for services to Local Government.
Presenter to Athens Conference of Municipal Government for 2004 Olympics (invited by Mayor of Athens).
Chair Central Parramatta Planning Committee.
Member Parramatta Economic Development Board.
Local Government Association delegate to Streets Opening Conference (2 years).
Patron of Allan Family Remembrance Trust (Charitable Trust for Cancer research).
A totally self-funded Independent (never belonged to a major party).

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