Dorothy Edna Annie Edwards CBE (née Fleming; 20 June 1907 – 9 March 2006) was an Australian schoolteacher and civic leader.
She was also president of the National Council of Women of Australia from 1960 to 1964 and a long-serving board member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) and the State Library of Tasmania.
[3] Edwards was a leader of the campaign to allow women to stand for election to the Launceston City Council, a right which was not granted until 1945 by an act of state parliament.
[5] She was elected with the second-highest number of votes, behind only the incumbent mayor Denham Henty,[6] becoming Tasmania's first female alderman.
Her achievements in office included "the building of the City Baths at Windmill Hill, flood prevention measures and the opening of a by-products plant for the Killafaddy Abattoirs".
[4] In 1962 she was appointed to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) by the Menzies government, in place of fellow Tasmanian Enid Lyons.