Melinda MacLean

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}

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| name =Melinda MacLean

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|1|19}}

| birth_place =Truro, Nova Scotia

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| office1 = MLA for Colchester

| term_start1 = 1974

| term_end1 = 1978

| predecessor1 = George Isaac Smith
Gerald Ritcey

| successor1 = riding dissolved

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| residence= Truro, Nova Scotia

| party = Nova Scotia Liberal Party

| occupation = Lawyer

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Melinda Jane MacLean (née McLellan; January 19, 1946) is a former Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Colchester in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1974 to 1978. She was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.{{cite web|url=http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/about/ConstituencyHistories/colchester%20north.pdf|title=Electoral History for Colchester|publisher=Nova Scotia Legislative Library|accessdate=2014-11-15|archive-date=2017-08-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823063817/http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/about/ConstituencyHistories/colchester|url-status=dead}}

MacLean was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, the daughter of former Colchester MLA Robert F. McLellan. She attended the University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie University, earning a Bachelor of Laws degree from the latter. In 1968, she married John Alton MacLean.{{cite book|last1=Elliott|first1=Shirley B.|title=The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983 : a biographical directory|url=https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/219|accessdate=2018-05-15|year=1984|publisher=Public Archives of Nova Scotia|isbn=0-88871-050-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/219 219]}}