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  1. Biography

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  3. References

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| name = Dame Diane Robertson
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|DNZM|size=100%}}
| image = TedX Christchurch 2016 Diane Robertson.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Diane Robertson in 2016
| birth_name = Diane Elizabeth Coburn
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|05|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Waipukurau, New Zealand
| death_date =
| death_place =
| education = Tararua College
Palmerston North Teachers' College
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| occupation = Auckland City Missioner
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Dame Diane Elizabeth Robertson {{post-nominals|country=NZL|DNZM|size=85%}} (born 11 May 1953) is a New Zealand community leader. She was the Auckland City Missioner from 1998 until 2015.

Biography

Robertson was born in Waipukurau in 1953, the daughter of Joan Lois Coburn and her husband Alexander Lawrence Coburn. She was educated at Tararua College, and then studied at Palmerston North Teachers' College where she gained a Diploma of Teaching.[1] She met her husband, Wilfred Holt, when she was teaching at Waiouru Military Camp and he was serving in the army,[2] and they married in 1975.[1] They would go on to have three children.[1]

In 1998 Robertson was appointed the Auckland City Missioner, having previously been a teacher , counsellor and involved in youth work and a manager of a social services agency . She was the first woman and first non-cleric to hold the role.[3] In September 2015 she announced that she would step down from that post at the end of 2015.[4]

Dame Diane is Chair of the Data Futures Partnership, Chair of the Goodman Fielder Cares Foundation and a member of the Vulnerable Children's Board

Honours

Robertson was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal in 1990.[1] In the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the community.[5]

Dame Diane is a Paul Harris Fellow

References

1. ^{{cite book |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=Alister |title=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 2001 |year=2001 |publisher=Alister Taylor Publishers |location=Auckland |issn=1172-9813}}
2. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/72136247/Sunday-Profile-Diane-Robertson | title=Sunday profile - Diane Robertson | date=20 September 2015 | work=Auckland Now | accessdate=14 October 2015 | first=Shabnam | last=Dastgheib}}
3. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11511694 | title=Nothing impossible for City Missioner | date=12 September 2015 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=14 October 2015 | first=Corazon | last=Miller}}
4. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/dame-diane-robertson-leaves-auckland-city-mission-2015091207 | title=Dame Diane Robertson leaves Auckland City Mission | date=12 September 2015 | work=3News | accessdate=14 October 2015}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/qb2015-list |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2015 |date=1 June 2015 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=14 October 2015}}
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6 : 1953 births|Living people|People from Waipukurau|People educated at Tararua College|Dames Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit|New Zealand community activists

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