Penny Simmonds

Penelope Elsie Simmonds CNZM MP (born September 1959) is a New Zealand politician, Member of Parliament and a Minister in the House of Representatives for the National Party. She previously served as the chief executive of the Southern Institute of Technology. Following the 2023 New Zealand general election, Simmonds assumed the disability issues, environmental, tertiary education and skills, and associate social development and employment portfolios in the Sixth National Government.

Penny Simmonds
Simmonds in 2023
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Invercargill
Assumed office
17 October 2020
Preceded bySarah Dowie
Majority10,945
Personal details
BornSeptember 1959 (age 64)
Southland, New Zealand
Political partyNational
SpouseMarty Irwin
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Otago
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