Mary Jocelyn Burgener (née Rivers; March 4, 1949) is a businesswoman and politician.
She won the race with a comfortable margin of about 2000 votes over Liberal candidate Mairi Matheson.
The race also included Alberta Political Alliance leader Mark Waters who made a strong fourth place showing.
She stood for office for a second term in the 1997 Alberta general election winning a reduced plurality but still finishing with a wide margin over the field of four other candidates.
[2] In May 2014, Burgener published her first book Naked Under My Coat: Writing Under the Influence of Parkinson's, a collection of poems and short stories written during the onset and formal diagnosis of Parknson's.