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Dixon was born in Timaru on 10 May 1942.
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Judy Keall
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She was an Member of Parliament from 1984 to 1990, and again from 1993 until her retirement in 2002, representing the Labour Party. She was first elected to Parliament in the 1984 elections, winning the North Shore seat of Glenfield. She was re-elected in the 1987 elections, but in the 1990 elections, she was defeated by National"s Peter Hilt.
In the 1993 elections, she returned to Parliament as Member of Parliament for the lower North Island seat of Horowhenua.
In the 1996 elections, when the Horowhenua electorate was abolished, she was elected as Member of Parliament for the new Otaki electorate. She was re-elected in the 1999 elections, but at the 2002 elections, she chose to retire from Parliament.
She was one of only two electorate MPs who retired in 2002. The other was Labour"s Geoff Braybrooke.
Keall was succeeded by her former Parliamentary Secretary, Darren Hughes.
Keall chaired Parliament"s health select committee and she was the key proponent of legislation that would make bars and restaurants smoke-free.
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