Holman, Mary (May) Alice (1893 - 1939)

May Holman's father, John Barkell Holman, was a Labor politician and member of the Timber Workers' Union. After his death in 1925, May Holman became secretary of the Union and won preselection for her father's seat, Forrest, where timber was the dominant industry. She retained her seat through four elections. Holman was president of the Labor Women's Central Executive; secretary of the Parliamentary Labor Party; and member of the royal commission into sanitation and slum clearance in Perth in 1938. She died in a car accident on the day that she was re-elected to Parliament in 1939.

See also

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]