Alexis Ord

{{Short description|Australian Lord Mayor}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}

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| order=93rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne

| term_start=1987

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| successor=Winsome McCaughey

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Alexis Ord, also known as Lecki Ord, was Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1987 to 1988. She was the first woman to hold that position.{{cite web |url=http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wmnstime/1980to1988.htm |title=Women's Time – Taking Time |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030314082441/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wmnstime/1980to1988.htm |archivedate=14 March 2003 |accessdate=23 January 2016}} Ord has been involved in several community activist groups, such as the Friends of the ABC,{{cite web |url=http://www.fabc.org.au/vic/links/photo_gallery/shier31_10_01.html |title=Jonathan Shier Departs |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030521215852/http://www.fabc.org.au/vic/links/photo_gallery/shier31_10_01.html |archivedate=21 May 2003 |accessdate=23 January 2016}} founding member of the Women's Planning Network,{{cite journal |last1=Day |first1=Kirsten |last2=Raisbeck |first2=Peter |date=2021 |title=The Last Laugh and Its Afterlife: Emerging Narratives in 1970s Melbourne Architecture |journal=Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=336–356}} and the environmental movement.{{cite web |url=http://www.acmi.net.au/vid_lecki_ord.htm |title=Lecki Ord: First woman Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024164907/http://www.acmi.net.au/vid_lecki_ord.htm |archivedate=24 October 2010 |accessdate=23 January 2016}}