Joyce Elizabeth Leslie Baird (8 December 1929 – 3 October 2015) was a British trade unionist.
Baird studied at The Abbey School, Reading, then at Newnham College, Cambridge, before training as a secretary.
[1] At the start of the 1960s, Baird moved into teaching, becoming head of geography at The Hertfordshire and Essex High School in Bishop's Stortford, and serving additionally as deputy headteacher from 1973 to 1975.
In 1978, this merged with the Association of Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools to form the Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association, Baird becoming joint general secretary.
[1] Baird retired in 1990 and became the vice-president of the National Foundation for Educational Research.