14 Facts About Sharon Murdock

Sharon Margaret Murdock was a Canadian politician and administrator in Ontario.

Sharon Murdock was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.

Sharon Murdock worked as an elementary school teacher from 1967 to 1979, and was a principal and teacher with the Ministry of Education's Northern Corps from 1975 to 1979, working in isolated communities.

Sharon Murdock left her teaching career to attend the School of Commerce in Windsor.

Sharon Murdock was involved with the NDP for many years before running for office herself.

Sharon Murdock worked for the party from 1968 to 1975, and was a canvass organizer for Bud Wildman's first campaign in the 1975 provincial election.

Sharon Murdock ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1987 provincial election, finishing third against Liberal Sterling Campbell in a close three-way race in Sudbury.

Sharon Murdock ran again in the 1990 provincial election, and defeated Campbell by 3,397 votes amid an historic majority government victory for the NDP.

Sharon Murdock served as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Labour for the entirety of the Rae government's time in office.

In 1994, Sharon Murdock introduced a Private Member's Bill to make the common loon Ontario's official bird, the Avian Emblem Act.

Sharon Murdock introduced a Private Bill which resulted in granting Nipissing University its charter.

The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, and Sharon Murdock lost her seat to Liberal Rick Bartolucci by over 3,500 votes.

Sharon Murdock was very instrumental in having Women of the Future become a signature event for the Workforce Planning office.

Sharon Murdock retired December 2011 and had recently started her own consulting business focusing on workforce planning, research, feasibility studies and community capacity building.