Career
The daughter of Wallace Diamond and Nellie Emberley, she was born Caroline Kate Diamond in Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador and was educated at Memorial University. She was a teacher in Lethbridge from 1967 to 1993. Young was Minister of Social Services and Minister responsible for the Status of Women.
She ran unsuccessfully in the redistributed riding of Bonavista South in 1996, losing to Roger Fitzgerald.