Joyce Sandra Hayden (September 20, 1931 – March 7, 2009) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Whitehorse South Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1989 to 1992.
As founding president of the Yukon Status of Women Council, she spearheaded a campaign to institute a public transit system in Whitehorse, securing an $80,000 grant from Transport Canada to set up a community system, the Yukon Women's Minibus Society.
[3] She served as Minister of Health and Social Services in the final cabinet of Tony Penikett.
In that role, she briefly faced controversy when two young offenders who had escaped from a youth detention facility turned themselves in to her office, and she spent some time talking to them over lunch before turning them back over to the police.
[4] In 2003, she was a recipient of the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Person's Case.