Kathy Dunderdale

Dunderdale received a High School diploma in 1970.

After attending Memorial University of Newfoundland for social work, she dropped out of university to get married.

She met her late husband, Captain Peter Dunderdale, in 1972 while she was home from university for the summer.

Captain Dunderdale was a British master mariner whose boat was in dry dock undergoing repairs.

The couple had a son, Tom, and daughter, Sarah, together and Dunderdale was a stay-at-home mom during their formative years, while her husband sailed the world.

When her children grew older, she worked away from home in many different volunteer roles.

In the early 1980s, Dunderdale was on an action committee that successfully lobbied Fishery Products International to reverse a decision to shut down its Burin fish plant.

The committee was successful and the plant remains in operation.

She worked as a social worker with the provincial Department of Social Services, and accepted an offer to be part of an appeals board for inshore fishers after the cod moratorium.

Dunderdale served on the Burin town council and worked with an array of organizations, including the local school board and the Status of Women.

She was president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, and, after her husband retired from the sea and her children moved away for university, she became heavily involved in the consulting company her husband had started.

Dunderdale was elected to the Burin town council in 1985, and served as deputy mayor from 1989 to 1993.

She got involved in the provincial Federation of Municipalities, she served as their first female president and is the organization's only honorary member, Dunderdale was also director of the Canadian Federation of Municipalities.

She was also a Progressive Conservative Party (PC) candidate in the 1993 general election and served as President of the PC Party.

Dunderdale was the Progressive Conservative Candidate in the district of Fortune-Hermitage in the 1993 provincial election.

Dunderdale ran against Liberal cabinet minister Oliver Langdon, and while she knew she would not win the election she felt she had to send premier Clyde Wells a message about the way he was treating municipalities.

In 1995, she and her husband moved to St. John's, where Dunderdale currently lives within her district of Virginia Waters.

In the 1995 Progressive Conservative leadership election Dunderdale served as co-chair of Lynn Verge's successful campaign.

She help found Women in Resource Development Corporation (WRDC) in 1997, an organization that works to get women involved in the trades and technology sector in Newfoundland and Labrador.

In the 2003 general election, Dunderdale was elected as Member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for Virginia Waters.

Dunderdale was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in the 2003 general election defeating Liberal cabinet minister Walter Noel by 1,835 votes, taking 58 percent of the popular vote.

Following the election she was brought into cabinet as Minister of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development, and Minister Responsible for the Rural Secretariat.

Her husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer and died in 2006 at age 56.

In a July 5, 2006 cabinet shuffle, Williams appointed Dunderdale as the Minister of Natural Resources and the Minister Responsible for the Forestry and Agrifoods Agency.

She was re-elected in the 2007 general election taking 73% of the popular vote against three other candidates.

Dunderdale remained as Natural Resources Minister following the 2007 election and on October 31, 2008, Williams appointed her to serve as Deputy Premier and Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, while continuing to serve in her previous portfolios.

On August 20, 2008, Dunderdale, Premier Williams and a consortium of oil companies led by Chevron Canada signed a deal to develop the Hebron oil field.

The Hebron oil field is the second largest oil field off the coast of the province with an estimated 700 million barrels of oil reserves.

The province expects to gain at least $20 billion in royalties and up to 3,500 jobs from the project.

Less than a year later, on June 16, 2009, the government announced they had negotiated an agreement with oil companies to expand the Hibernia oil field.

Kathleen Mary Margaret "Kathy" Dunderdale (née Warren; born February 1952) is a politician and former MHA who served as the tenth premier of Newfoundland and Labrador from December 3, 2010, to January 24, 2014.

Dunderdale was born and raised in Burin; before entering politics she worked in the fields of community development, communications, fisheries and social work.

Her first foray into politics was as a member of the Burin town council, where she served as deputy mayor.

From February 1, 2010 to March 15, 2010, Dunderdale assumed the duties as acting Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, while Williams took a leave of absence to undergo heart surgery in Florida.

During her time as the Minister of Natural Resources, she negotiated and signed several multibillion-dollar development deals.

Dunderdale became premier upon the resignation of Williams and after becoming the PC leader she led the party to victory in the October 2011 election.

Dunderdale was the first female premier in the province's history and the sixth woman to serve as a premier in the history of Canada.

Kathleen Mary Margaret Warren was born and raised in Burin, Newfoundland and Labrador by her mother Alice and father Norman; she was one of 11 children.

She was re-elected as MHA in the 2007 and 2011 general elections and resigned her post on February 28, 2014.

She served in the cabinets of Danny Williams—at various times holding the portfolios of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development, Natural Resources and Deputy Premier—where she developed a reputation as one of the most high-profile members of Williams' cabinets.