Jill Amos

Jill Edwina Amos (née Turner, 26 August 1927 – 19 April 2017) was a New Zealand politician and community leader.

Biography Born in the Auckland suburb of Devonport on 26 August 1927, Amos was the daughter of Charles Edwin Ross Turner and Lucy Caroline Turner (née Mansfield). She married Phil Amos in 1949, and the couple, both schoolteachers, taught in various isolated New Zealand communities. They had two sons, and an adopted daughter. Phil Amos was a Member of Parliament from 1963 to 1975, and served as a cabinet minister in the third Labour government (1972–1975).

Jill Amos was appointed as a justice of the peace in 1980, A long-time Labour Party member, she went on to be elected as a Manukau City Councillor (1974–77; 1980–90) and an Auckland Regional Councillor (1980–83). She was one of the founders of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation, and during the 1994 South African election she was a United Nations observer.

She was in favour of homosexual law reform in New Zealand and listed her name openly in support.

Amos was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal in 1993.

Amos died at home in Katikati on 19 April 2017, aged 89. She was survived by two of her three children.