Editing Judith Tizard (section)

==Member of Parliament==
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Tizard stood unsuccessfully for the safe National seat of {{NZ electorate link|Remuera}} in the {{NZ election link|1981}}. She was an electorate secretary in the {{NZ electorate link|Mount Albert}} electorate for [[Helen Clark]] from 1984 to 1987.{{sfn|Who's Who|1996|p=90}} In 1986 Tizard sought the Labour nomination for the seat of {{NZ electorate link|Papatoetoe}}, but lost out to [[Ross Robertson]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19860519.2.40 |title=Auckland unionist a candidate |work=[[The Press]] |date=19 May 1986 |page=4 }}</ref> At the {{NZ election link|1987}} she contested Remuera again. Election night projections suggested she had taken the seat off National; ultimately she reduced the majority of [[Doug Graham]] to just 406 votes. She was the only Labour candidate to come remotely close to winning Remuera. From 1987 to 1990 she was an electorate secretary in the {{NZ electorate link|Panmure}} electorate for her father. From 1987 to 1989 she was vice-president of the Auckland Regional Council of the Labour Party.{{sfn|Who's Who|1996|p=90}}

On his retirement she succeeded her father as Labour's candidate for [[Panmure (New Zealand electorate)|Panmure]]. She entered Parliament at the [[1990 New Zealand general election|1990 election]] and in November 1990 she was appointed Labour's spokesperson for Immigration and Arts & Culture by Labour leader [[Mike Moore (New Zealand politician)|Mike Moore]].<ref>{{cite news |work=[[Otago Daily Times]] |title=All Labour's 29 MPs get areas of responsibility |date=28 November 1990 |page=4 }}</ref> After being re-elected in [[1993 New Zealand general election|1993]], she shifted her candidacy to {{NZ electorate link|Auckland Central}}, which she won in the [[1996 New Zealand general election|1996 election]], defeating [[Sandra Lee-Vercoe|Sandra Lee]]. In 1993, Tizard was awarded the [[New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/our-programmes/new-zealand-royal-honours/new-zealand-royal-honours-system/types-new-zealand-royal-honours/other-distinctive-new-zealand-honours/suffrage-medal-register |title=The New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 – register of recipients |date=26 July 2018 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=18 September 2018}}</ref> In 1999, Tizard served as the Minister assisting the Prime Minister on Auckland issues, which would develop into the portfolio of [[Minister for Auckland]] Issues in 2002.<ref name="Parliament NZ"> {{citation |url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/former-members-of-parliament/tizard-judith/ |title= Hon Judith Tizard |date=8 Nov 2008 |access-date=31 January 2023}} </ref>

She became a Minister outside of Cabinet, serving as [[Minister of Consumer Affairs (New Zealand)|Minister of Consumer Affairs]], Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Associate Minister of Transport, Associate Minister of Commerce, and Minister responsible for [[Archives New Zealand]] and the [[National Library of New Zealand|National Library]].

Before the [[2008 New Zealand general election|2008 general election]] Tizard was  [[Party lists in the New Zealand general election, 2008|placed]] 38th on Labour's list, a relatively low one for a minister. She was then defeated in her electorate by [[New Zealand National Party|National]]'s [[Nikki Kaye]] by a margin of 1,497 votes.<ref>[http://2008.electionresults.govt.nz/electorate-1.html Auckland Central results 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211164729/http://2008.electionresults.govt.nz/electorate-1.html |date=11 December 2008 }}</ref> Due to the scale of Labour's defeat that year, her list placing was too low to allow her to remain Parliament as a list MP; her only chance of returning would be if Labour list MPs quit.<ref name="NZ_Herald_10542100">{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz-election-2008/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501799&objectid=10542100 |title=Tizard takes time out to think |author=McKenzie-Minifie, Martha |date=10 November 2008 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date=8 October 2011}}</ref>

On 25 March 2011, Labour list MP [[Darren Hughes]] resigned from Parliament. Whilst Tizard was next in line, Labour Party president [[Andrew Little (New Zealand politician)|Andrew Little]] expressed preference for [[Louisa Wall]] to replace Hughes as she intended to contest the [[2011 New Zealand general election|2011 general election]],<ref name="Wall predicted">{{cite news|last=Trevett|first=Claire|title=Wall, not Tizard, tipped to fill vacancy|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10715010|access-date=26 March 2011|newspaper=The New Zealand Herald|date=26 March 2011|author2=Adam Bennett}}</ref> unlike Tizard and the four other list candidates preceding Wall ([[Mark Burton (politician)|Mark Burton]], [[Mahara Okeroa]], [[Martin Gallagher]] and [[Dave Hereora]]). Tizard, like her lower-ranked colleagues, decided not to take the seat.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10716836 |title=Tizard rejects return to Parliament |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=3 April 2011 |access-date=3 April 2011}}</ref>

Tizard now works in the constituency office of [[Phil Twyford]], incumbent Member for [[Te Atatū (New Zealand electorate)|Te Atatū]].