Madeleine Redfern (born 1967) is a Canadian Inuk politician, who was elected mayor of Iqaluit, Nunavut in a by-election on 13 December 2010.

[1] Redfern graduated from the Akitsiraq Law School before becoming the first Inuk to be offered a clerkship at the Supreme Court of Canada.

[citation needed] Redfern is a businessperson, consultant and social advocate in Iqaluit, and was most recently the executive director of the Qikiqtani Truth Commission, looking into the legacy of historical effects of federal government policies on Eastern Arctic Inuit during the period from the 1950s through the 1980s.

She ran as a candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the 2008 territorial election in Iqaluit Centre, but lost to incumbent MLA Hunter Tootoo.

[2] On 24 July 2012, Redfern announced at a meeting of the Iqaluit City Council that she would not run for re-election in the next election.