Yvonne Atwell
MLA for Preston
In office 1988 – 1989
Preceded by	Wayne Adams
Succeeded by	David Hendsbee
Born	1943
Political party	NDP

Yvonne Atwell (born 1943 in East Preston, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian provincial politician.

She spent 20 years as an administrator at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, and returned to Nova Scotia in 1984.

She has been the president of the Black United Front and the African Canadian Caucus, a chair of the Indigenous Black and Mi'kmaq Program at Dalhousie University, a member of the Metropolitan Board of Trade's small business committee, and a member of the George Washington Carver Credit Union executive board.

In 1996 she ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. She won a seat in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1998 for the riding of Preston, becoming the first black woman MLA in the province. She lost her seat in the 1999 provincial election.

She is currently the director of the African-Canadian Employment Clinic in Halifax. She is also currently the Vice President of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.

[edit] References

• Williams, Dawn Who's who in Black Canada 2: Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada : a Contemporary Directory (2006) ISBN 0973138424]
• Nova Scotia Legislature Hansard, May 26, 1998

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