Lorna Doone Pleasance Kennedy AO (10 May 1927 – 30 August 2014) was an Australian politician and civic leader who served as the Lord Mayor of Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, from 1986 until 1996.
[2] John Kennedy had been an Australian POW who was forced to work on the Burma Railway by the Japanese during World War II.
By 1986, the year of her election as Lord Mayor, Kennedy had served as a president or board member of numerous organizations, including the Asthma Foundation, the Hobart District Nursing Service, Greening of Australia, the Mary Ogilvy Home Society, the board of Queen Alexandra Hospital, the Narryna Heritage Museum, the trustees of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Southern Regional Ambulance Service Advisory Council, and the Sudden Infant Death Society.
[2] Kennedy campaigned on a platform of city beautification, the preservation of Queens Domain as an open space, and pro-business policies.
[2] She wrote at the time, "We need to beautify our carparks—eliminate every possible ugliness... Add to the beauty of our streets by stepping up our tree-planting program and general beautification.
[2] Doone Kennedy remained the only woman to serve as Lord Mayor of Hobart until Sue Hickey's election in 2014.
[2] Doone Kennedy died following a short illness at the JW Whittle Ward palliative care unit on 30 August 2014, at the age of 87.