The Australian Women's Register

Summary

Katrina Ann Hodgkinson was a National candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly by-election for Southern Highlands in 1996. In 1999 and then again in 2003 she was successfully elected to the Burrinjuck seat in the NSW Legislative Assembly. She was re-elected in 2007 and 2011. She was appointed Minister for Primary Industries in 2011, the first woman to hold that position in New South Wales. An electoral redistribution before the 2015 election meant that she stood for and won the new seat of Cootamundra. She resigned from Parliament in 2017. At the 2019 federal election she contested, unsuccessfully, the seat of Gilmore in New South Wales.

After leaving Parliament she was the National Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Australia’s Academic and Research Network, was on the Board of the Australian Rail Track Corporation for several years, and served on other boards in sectors ranging from mining to philanthropy, property, and small business.

A complete record of her parliamentary service can be found on the New South Wales Parliament site (see link below).