Hon Sir Douglas Kidd

DCNZM, LLB

The Honourable Sir Douglas Lorimer Kidd was educated at Victoria University, where he graduated with an LLB in 1964. After being admitted to the Bar as a barrister and solicitor, he joined the Blenheim law firm of Wisheart, Macnab and Partners in 1964 and practised as a partner until 1979. Holding positions on the Marlborough Electorate Executive, as a Dominion Councillor, and as an electorate chairman for Marlborough, the Honourable Sir Douglas Kidd was elected the member of Parliament for Marlborough in 1978. Between 1980 and 1990, he chaired a number of parliamentary select committees and caucus committees.

In 1990, the Honourable Sir Douglas Kidd was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of State-Owned Enterprises, Minister of Fisheries, and Associate Minister of Finance, and he also chaired the Cabinet Expenditure Control Committee. In 1991, he was made Minister of Māori Affairs, retaining the Fisheries portfolio. He was appointed to the Fisheries, Energy, and Labour portfolios, was the chair of the Expenditure Control and Revenue Committee following the 1993 general election, and from 1995 served on the ACC portfolio. He was made Speaker in 1996 and became a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in June 2000.

The Honourable Sir Douglas Kidd was appointed to the Tribunal in 2004.

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