Caroline Mécary (born 16 April 1963) is a French lawyer as well as a politician of the Greens party (also known as Europe Écologie Les Verts or EELV) in France.
A staunch supporter of LGBT rights and gay marriage, Caroline Mécary is also the co-founder of the Copernic Foundation.
[6][8] Since 1993, she has been a member of GISTI (groupe d'information et de soutien des immigrés), an association which defends the human rights of immigrants.
In 2004, Noël Mamère, the mayor of Bègles in the suburbs of Bordeaux, disobeyed French law and conducted the first gay marriage as an act of defiance.
In February 2011 she won a similar case; this time of a gay couple who had adopted their children under British and Canadian law.
She is a permanent member of the council and in charge of the commissions on Environment, Agriculture and Energy, youth, Metropolitan policy and security.