Sarah Doucette

{{short description|Canadian politician|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{use mdy dates|date=December 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Sarah Doucette

| image = Sarah Doucette portrait, 2010 (S2311 fl3157 it0001).jpg

| caption = Doucette in 2010

| office = Former Toronto City Councillor

| constituency = Ward 13, Parkdale–High Park

| term_start = December 1, 2010

| term_end = November 30, 2018

| predecessor = Bill Saundercook

| successor =

| birth_date =

| birth_place = Winchester, United Kingdom

| occupation = Public Administrator

| children = 2

| nationality = British, Canadian

}}

Sarah Doucette ({{IPAc-en|d|uː|ˈ|s|ɛ|t|audio=Doucette-mg.ogg}} {{respell|doo|SET}}) is a Canadian politician, who served on Toronto City Council from 2010 to 2018. In the 2010 city council election, Doucette defeated Bill Saundercook in Ward 13, Parkdale–High Park.{{Cite news | last = Porter | first = Catherine | title = Porter: Female breakthrough on Toronto city council | newspaper = The Toronto Star | location = Toronto | publisher = Torstar | date = 2010-10-26 | url = https://www.thestar.com/news/article/881530 | accessdate = 2010-11-03}} Doucette was born in Winchester, Hampshire but grew up on the Isle of Wight, in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.{{Cite news | last = Rainford | first = Lisa | title = Doucette captures Ward 13 | newspaper = Bloor West Villager | location = Toronto | publisher = InsideToronto | date = 2010-10-26 | url = http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/local/article/892992 | accessdate = 2010-11-03}} Doucette came to Canada in 1980. She and her husband have two children. They have lived in the Swansea neighbourhood of Toronto for fifteen years. Doucette worked at the Swansea Town Hall since 2004 and in 2008, she became executive assistant to the executive director. To run for city council she had to take a leave of absence from her job. The 2010 election race was her first campaign.{{Cite news | last = Rainford | first = Lisa |author2=Erin Hatfield | title = Consultation, Visioning in store for west-end wards | newspaper = Bloor West Villager | location = Toronto | publisher = InsideToronto | date = 2010-10-26 | url = http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/local/article/893351 | accessdate = 2010-11-03}} She was re-elected in 2014, but decided not to run in the 2018 election.{{cite web |title=Sarah Doucette |url=http://ward13.squarespace.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026214926/http://ward13.squarespace.com/ |archive-date=October 26, 2018}}

Doucette comes from a long line of municipal politicians. Both her grandfather and her mother were city councillors and were then elected as mayors: he, in Winchester in 1953, and she in the county of the Isle of Wight, during the 1990s. Doucette supported Peggy Nash in her bid to become leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada.{{Cite news | title = Who Supports Whom in NDP Leadership Race | newspaper = The Hill Times | location = Ottawa | date = 2012-03-19 | url = http://www.hilltimes.com/list-survey-or-map/politics/2011/10/14/who-supports-who-in-ndp-leadership-race/28500?page_requested=3 | accessdate = 2012-03-26}}{{Cite news | title = Peggy Nash Campaign at the NDP Convention | newspaper = Press Release | location = Toronto | publisher = Peggy Nash | date = 2012-03-23 | url = http://peggynash.ca/2012/peggy-nash-campaign-at-the-ndp-convention/| accessdate = 2012-03-28}}