Dame Jocelyn Barbara Fish DNZM CBE JP (née Green; 29 September 1930 – 19 September 2021) was a New Zealand women's rights campaigner.
[1][2][3] She trained as a secondary school teacher, and taught at Fairfield College until her marriage to Robert John Malthus Fish, a farmer, in 1959.
[1] In 1980, Jocelyn Fish was elected as a Piako County councillor, the first woman in that role, and served until 1989.
[1] The following year, in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community,[6] and in 1993 she was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.
[7] In the 2001 New Year Honours, Fish was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to women and the community,[8] and in 2009, following the restoration of titular honours by the New Zealand government, she accepted redesignation as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.