[1] Fawcett served as reeve of Colborne, Northumberland County, Ontario, before her provincial career.
She ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1985 provincial election, but lost to Progressive Conservative Howard Sheppard by fewer than 2000 votes in the rural, eastern-Ontario riding of Northumberland.
[2] She ran again in the 1987 provincial election, and defeated Sheppard by 1376 votes amid a landslide majority victory for the Liberals under David Peterson.
[5] Fawcett served as her party's caucus chair from 1990 to 1992, and held a variety of critic positions.
[7] Fawcett retired from politics and moved to Howe Island with her husband and died in Cobourg, Ontario, on August 16, 2015, at Northumberland Hills Hospital at the age of 78 from a massive stroke.