19 Facts About Katherine Rich

Katherine Rich served as a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the National Party from 1999 to 2008.

Katherine Rich was educated at St Hilda's Collegiate School in Dunedin from 1980 to 1985, and studied at the University of Otago, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1990 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1993.

Katherine Rich entered Parliament in 1999 as a list MP for the National Party.

At this election, Katherine Rich was ranked twenty-third on the National list, a very high placing for someone not already in Parliament.

Katherine Rich had contested the Dunedin North electorate, but finished second behind incumbent Labour MP Pete Hodgson.

Once in Parliament, Katherine Rich rose quickly through the National Party hierarchy, and eventually was ranked fourth in the party caucus.

Katherine Rich was appointed, on 1 December 2006, the party's spokesperson on education.

Katherine Rich was the only National MP prepared to cross the floor and vote for the 'anti-smacking bill' in 2007 prior to the compromise clause 4 being added.

In 2002, Katherine Rich was the second woman MP to take her baby to parliament and breastfeed there.

For both the 2002 and 2005 general elections, Katherine Rich stood unsuccessfully in the Dunedin North electorate, but was returned as a list MP.

Katherine Rich announced, on 13 February 2008, that she would not stand in the 2008 general election, saying that she wanted to spend more time with her children.

Katherine Rich was replaced as National candidate for Dunedin North by Michael Woodhouse.

Katherine Rich, who has described her own position as "centrist" and "centre right", had a reputation as one of the more liberal members of the National Party.

Katherine Rich was the inaugural parliamentary co-chair of the party's internal Classical Liberal Policy Advisory Group, which advocates policies that are both economically and socially liberal.

Katherine Rich was appointed to the board of the Health Promotion Agency in June 2012.

Katherine Rich has been on the National Advisory Council for the Employment of Women since 2016, and has been on the board of children's charity Barnardos NZ since 2014.

The plaintiff's lawyers told the judge in the case that Katherine Rich was keen to keep the settlement confidential.

Katherine Rich said the Food and Grocery Council "did not pay anyone to write any stories on its behalf on Whale Oil, or any other publication".

Katherine Rich told NZ Listener that Bradbrook, whose complaints comprised nearly half of the trio's action, earlier conceded his case and was ordered to pay "considerable" costs.