Jo-anne Wilkinson

Jo-anne Edna Mary Wilkinson, Lady Dingle (born ), is a New Zealand youth worker. She co-founded the Graeme Dingle Foundation with her then-partner and now husband Graeme Dingle in 1995.

Biography Wilkinson was born in about 1958. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Victoria University of Wellington in 1991, and practised as a lawyer.

Wilkinson first met Graeme Dingle in 1984 and were friends for about five years, until becoming life partners in 1990 and marrying in 1999.

From 2015 to 2019, Wilkinson was a member of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Trust Board. From 2014 to 2018, she chaired and was interim families commissioner of Superu. Between 2017 and 2020, Wilkinson chaired the Ministry of Social Development's Grievance Panel, and was a member of the Oranga Tamariki Risk and Assurance Panel. She was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2024 New Year Honours, also for services to youth.

In the 2014 New Zealand Women of Influence Awards, Wilkinson was a joint winner of the social enterprise category.