Cathy Cox | |
Office: | Minister of Sport, Culture and Heritage |
Term Start: | August 17, 2017 |
Term End: | January 18, 2022 |
Premier: | Brian Pallister Kelvin Goertzen Heather Stefanson |
Predecessor: | Rochelle Squires |
Successor: | Andrew Smith |
Office1: | Minister of Sustainable Development |
Premier1: | Brian Pallister |
Term Start1: | May 3, 2016 |
Term End1: | August 17, 2017 |
Predecessor1: | Tom Nevakshonoff |
Successor1: | Rochelle Squires |
Office2: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Kildonan-River East |
Term Start2: | September 10, 2019 |
Term End2: | September 5, 2023 |
Predecessor2: | first member |
Successor2: | Rachelle Schott |
Office3: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for River East |
Term Start3: | April 19, 2016 |
Term End3: | September 10, 2019 |
Predecessor3: | Bonnie Mitchelson |
Successor3: | riding dissolved |
Party: | Progressive Conservative |
Residence: | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Cathy Cox is a Canadian provincial politician, who was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for the riding of River East in the 2016 election.[1] She is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (PCs). She held the riding for the party after incumbent MLA Bonnie Mitchelson did not stand for re-election.
On 3 May 2016, when the PC government was officially sworn in, Cox was appointed to the Executive Council of Manitoba as Minister of Sustainable Development.[2] [3]
On 17 August 2017, Cox was named Minister of Sport, Culture and Heritage.[4]
She was re-elected for Kildonan-River East in the 2019 provincial election, the first after the decennial electoral redistribution that occurred the previous year.