Julie Sutton (mayor)

Emeritus Mayor Julie Sutton JP
38th Mayor of Warringah
In office 19 September 1995 – 24 September 1996
Deputy	Sam Danieli
Preceded by	Brian Green
Succeeded by	Sam Danieli
In office 26 September 2002 – 23 July 2003
Deputy	David Stephens
Preceded by	Darren Jones
Succeeded by	Dick Persson (Administrator)
Councillor on Warringah Council
In office 20 September 1980 – 4 December 1985
Constituency	D Riding
In office 14 March 1987 – 23 July 2003
Constituency	D Riding/C Ward
In office 13 September 2008 – 8 September 2012
Succeeded by	Jose Menano-Pires
Constituency	C Ward
Personal details
Born	1937 (age 79/80) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Political party	Australian Labor Party (to 1985) Independent (1985–2012)
Residence	Frenchs Forest, New South Wales
Alma mater	Newcastle University University of New England Macquarie University
Occupation	Teacher and Marriage Celebrant

Julie Sutton JP (born. 1937) is a former New South Wales politician and Marriage Celebrant, elected as a Councillor of Warringah Council and was previously Mayor of Warringah from 1995–1996 and 2002-2003.

Sutton was born in Australia in 1937, growing up in Newcastle on the New South Wales Central Coast. Sutton was educated at Newcastle Girls' High School and the Universities of Newcastle, New England and Macquarie completing a Master of Arts with Honours (MA Hons.) and a Diploma of Education (DipEd), becoming a teacher. She taught French, German and English at Raymond Terrace High School and Newcastle Girls’. Moving to Sydney in 1965, Sutton became a Teacher of English and Modern Languages at The Forest High School, Davidson High School and Killarney Heights High School from 1965-1986. She married, which was later dissolved, and had 3 sons.

In 1980 Sutton stood for election as a Labor Party candidate in D Riding of Warringah Shire Council and on 20 September 1980 became only the fourth female councillor elected to Warringah. She served on the council until it was dismissed in December 1985 by the Wran Government following supposed discrepancies in council planning decisions. However, following a successful legal challenge against the government by the NSW Fraud Ombudsman, it was subsequently found that there was no evidence of corruption to support the dismissal, and that "the elected councillors were denied natural justice and were both unfairly and unlawfully dismissed". Sutton was one of the few councillors that supported the dismissal however, but nevertheless noted in her first council meeting back after the dismissal: "Even though I went against you in the election, I will certainly support you. [Joking] There is certainly a balance of brains and talent with one woman and 11 men ... In this case the men won - not the better men, but the men". When the council was returned on 14 March 1987 after the local elections, Sutton remained as a councillor but in September 1987 was elected as Deputy Shire President alongside Shire President Ted Jackson.

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