Joy Cummings

Joy Cummings
Lord Mayor of Newcastle
In office
September 1977 – 16 April 1984
Preceded byGordon Anderson
Succeeded byDon Geddes (Acting)
Lord Mayor of Newcastle
In office
September 1974 – September 1976
Preceded byGordon Anderson
Succeeded byGordon Anderson
Personal details
Born
Joyce Anne Plumbe

(1923-12-23)23 December 1923
Ramsgate, New South Wales
Died1 July 2003(2003-07-01) (aged 79)
New Lambton Heights, New South Wales
Political partyAustralian Labor Party
AwardsMember of the Order of Australia

Joyce Anne Cummings, AM (née Plumbe; 23 December 1923 – 1 July 2003) was an Australian politician. She was the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, and Australia's first female Lord Mayor, from 1974 to 1976 and again from 1977 until 1984, when she retired from politics following a severe stroke.