Jill Amos

Jill Edwina Amos CNZM (née Turner, 26 August 1927 – 19 April 2017) was a New Zealand politician and community leader.

[1][2] She married Phil Amos in 1949, and the couple, both schoolteachers, taught in various isolated New Zealand communities.

[4] Phil Amos was a Member of Parliament from 1963 to 1975, and served as a cabinet minister in the third Labour government (1972–1975).

[5] Jill Amos was appointed as a justice of the peace in 1980,[6] and served as the president of the Citizens Association for Racial Equality between 1980 and 1981.

She was one of the founders of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation, and during the 1994 South African election she was a United Nations observer.