Lucy Grounds

Lucy Margaret Grounds was an Australian politician, who, from 1951 to 1958, was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council. She belonged to the Tasmanian Labor Party.

Biography

Lucy Grounds was born in Glenorchy, a suburb of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia. In 1951, she was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council, as the Tasmanian Labor Party member for Launceston, following the death of her husband Arthur Grounds. She was the second woman to be elected to that position, and held the seat until she was defeated in 1958. Grounds died in Melbourne in October 1987. She was posthumously inducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2005 for service to government and the community.