Dorothy McCabe

Dorothy McCabe (born 1969)

Early life McCabe is originally from Arthur, Ontario. She is the daughter of Terry McCabe and Stella Mulhall.

McCabe attended Wilfrid Laurier University where she received a bachelor's degree in Communications and History.

In 2015, she received a master's degree in public administration from the University of Western Ontario. from 2003 to 2010, served as chief of staff to mayor of Kitchener Carl Zehr from 2020.

Mayoralty Following the announcement that Dave Jaworsky would not be running for re-election as mayor of Waterloo McCabe announced she would be running for mayor of the city in the 2022 mayoral election. In her announcement, she cited her past experience in working in governance at the municipal and provincial levels, as well as her position at KidsAbility.

In the election, McCabe narrowly defeated community volunteer Weber was married to Dan Weber, who was McCabe's Progressive Conservative opponent in the 2018 provincial election. McCabe campaigned on leading "Waterloo toward the future", "creating a greener, more sustainable city", and to "hear and understand diverse perspectives to work toward collective action". Following her election, she announced that one of her first issues she would focus on would be affordable housing.

Electoral record 2022 Waterloo mayoral election CandidateVotes%Dorothy McCabe 9,543 43.53%Shannon Weber 9,212 42.02%Rob Evans 2,474 11.28%Kypp Saunders 694 3.17%