Dame Deirdre Glenna Milne DNZM QSO (née Boyes, born 2 June 1939) is a New Zealand feminist active from the 1970s and a retired lawyer.
[1][2][3] Her father died in Wellington in 1943 while serving with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II, and her mother never remarried.
[1][4] Boyes studied at Canterbury University College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960.
[1] She married Don Milne, a journalist who rose to become deputy editor of The New Zealand Herald.
[1] She was chair of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation and served as a director of the Yellow Bus Company.