12 Facts About Jill Amos

Jill Edwina Amos was a New Zealand politician and community leader.

Jill Amos married Phil Amos in 1949, and the couple, both schoolteachers, taught in various isolated New Zealand communities.

Phil Jill Amos was a Member of Parliament from 1963 to 1975, and served as a cabinet minister in the third Labour government.

In 1977, Jill and Phil Amos went to Tanzania to teach, but Jill Amos returned to New Zealand the following year and the couple divorced.

Jill Amos posted a cassette tape which was played at the selection meeting in her stead.

Jill Amos was unsuccessful in her bid for the nomination.

Jill Amos was appointed as a justice of the peace in 1980, and served as the president of the Citizens Association for Racial Equality between 1980 and 1981.

Jill Amos was one of the founders of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation, and during the 1994 South African election she was a United Nations observer.

Jill Amos was in favour of homosexual law reform in New Zealand and listed her name openly in support.

Jill Amos was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal in 1993.

Jill Amos died at home in Katikati on 19 April 2017, aged 89.

Jill Amos was survived by two of her three children.