Jacquelin Holzman (born 1935) is a Canadian politician who served as the 55th mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1991 to 1997.
[11] In this capacity Holzman was involved in founding Ottawa's Tamir Foundation as well as the Salus Corporation for supportive and rehabilitative housing.
Holzman ran on a pro-development and tax cut platform and defeated Smith and interim mayor Marc Laviolette.
[16] During Holzman's first term, she advocated in favour of the Charlottetown Accords, and worked to increase Ottawa's international status.
Despite Holzman's reputation for fiscal conservatism, future Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson (then a newly elected city councillor) was described in The Canadian Encyclopedia as "a thorn in the side of then mayor Jacquelin Holzman over several expenditures he wouldn't support" because of his own reluctance to approve expenses.
One major debate during her second term regarded the mayor's desire to build the unity tower which had been approved for the then-new Ottawa City Hall.
Even though she was no longer mayor, Holzman held a press conference and shared the diagnosis with the public to encourage people to seek out mammograms, which made prominent news in outlets like the Ottawa Citizen.