- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1382
Brennan, Jan
(1948 – )- Nationality Australian
- Born 28 March, 1948
- Occupation Councillor, Legal secretary
Summary
Jan Brennan is a successful local councillor, having been elected to the Rockdale City Council for the period of 1999 to 2007 and was also appointed Mayor in 2000. She was less successful in her parliamentary career where she stood for the Liberal Party in Barton for the House of Representatives in 2001 and in the 2003 Rockdale elections.
Details
Jan Brennan worked for the Law Reform Commission for 10 years. While on Rockdale City Council she has been involved with measures to help disadvantaged youth. She served on the City Development Committee.
At the time of her campaign she was a member of the Athelstane Public School Council and the St George Migrant Resource Centre.
She has three children.
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Brennan, Jan (1948-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-747071
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Site Exhibition
- Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html