Catherine Tizard, New Zealand politician, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 2021)

Catherine Tizard

Governor-General of New Zealand from 1990 to 1996

Dame Catherine Anne Tizard was a New Zealand politician who served as mayor of Auckland City from 1983 to 1990, and the 16th governor-general of New Zealand from 1990 to 1996. She was the first woman to hold either office.

List of governors-general of New Zealand

The following is a list of the governors and governors-general of New Zealand. As the personal representative of the New Zealand monarch, the governor-general performs many of the functions vested in the Crown, such as summoning and dissolving Parliament, granting or withholding…