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Máire Hendron
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Belfast East
In office
2 July 2019 – 9 January 2020
Preceded by Naomi Long
Succeeded by Naomi Long
34th Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
1 June 2014 – 1 June 2015
Lord Mayor Nichola Mallon
Preceded by Christopher Stalford
Succeeded by Guy Spence
Member of Belfast City Council
In office
5 May 2005 – 22 May 2014
Preceded by Joseph O'Donnell
Succeeded by District abolished
Constituency Pottinger
Personal details
Nationality Northern Irish
Political party Alliance
Occupation Politician

Máire Hendron is an Alliance Party politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East from 2019 to 2020.

She was a Belfast City Councillor for the Pottinger DEA from 2005 to 2014, and served as Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2014 to 2015.

Political career

She was first elected to Belfast City Council in 2005, representing the Pottinger District.

Hendron was re-elected to the Council 2011, but failed to be elected onto the successor Titanic District at the 2014 local elections.

Hendron was appointed Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2014.

Hendron was co-opted the Northern Ireland Assembly in July 2019 after the incumbent MLA, Naomi Long, was elected to the European Parliament . She resigned as an MLA in January 2020.

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