Gordon Cressy

Gordon Cressy (born 1943) is a former Canadian politician, who served on Toronto City Council from 1978 to 1982.

Background Cressy was born in 1943 in Toronto, and attended Lawrence Park Collegiate and Northern Secondary School. At the time of the election, Campbell was an executive assistant in Cressy's office; she later married Cressy in 1983.

Post-political life Cressy remained with the United Way until 1987, when he left to join the University of Toronto as vice-president of institutional relations. He has since held similar positions with Ryerson University and George Brown College, and has worked on international development projects in Trinidad and Tobago.

His son Joe Cressy was elected to Toronto City Council in the 2014 municipal election. Gordon Cressy served on mayor-elect John Tory's transition team following the 2014 election.

Honours In 2016, he was made a member of the Order of Ontario.

In 1994, the University of Toronto Alumni Association established the Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards in his honour "to recognize students who have made outstanding extra-curricular contributions to their college, faculty or school, or to the university as a whole."