Cheryl Lavoie Bios - 56th Legislature

Cheryl Dawn Lavoie was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the provincial election on September 18, 2006. She is a Liberal Member and represents the constituency of Nepisiguit.

At the Legislature, she is currently vice-chair of the Standing Committee on Crown Corporations, the Standing Committee on Legislative Officers, and the Standing Committee on Private Bills. She is a member of the Standing Committee on Estimates, the Standing Committee on Law Amendments, and the Standing Committee on Procedure. She is the chair of the government caucus.

In 2007, Ms. Lavoie was designated the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Group (CWPG) representative of the New Brunswick Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).

She is a well-known community leader. For more than a decade she was a Sunday School teacher. The daughter of an Acadian mother and an Italian-Canadian father, she has three brothers and two sisters. She graduated with honours from Bathurst High School.

Ms. Lavoie has worked with several organizations which provided her with the opportunity to demonstrate leadership qualities; most notably was in her capacity as co-ordinator of the Red Cross swimming program in the Province of New Brunswick. She also excelled as a certified swimming coach and she was equally responsible for skills development in that area. She is also a certified CPR instructor.

Cheryl has been a Liberal activist and has held several key posts in the organization. She served as president of the Nepisiguit Liberal Association from 1994 until her resignation in 2006 to enable her to let her name stand for election as MLA.

Ms. Lavoie is married to husband Marcel and the couple has a daughter Robyn.

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Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick Constituency Office