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{{short description|Politician and academic from Northern Ireland}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_suffix    = {{Postnominals|country=GBR|CBE}}
| party               = [[Alliance Party of Northern Ireland]]
| birth_date          = {{Birth year and age|1944|04}}
| office              = Head of the Northern Ireland {{nowrap|[[Equal Opportunities Commission (United Kingdom)|Equal Opportunities Commission]]}}
| term                = 1984–1992
}}

'''Mary Burnell Clark-Glass''' (born April 1944)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mary Burnell CLARK-GLASS personal appointments - Find and update company information |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/g_Ec0_s7EgblqtF5LJv_Ck4CsMI/appointments |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref> {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} is an [[academic]], medical administrator and former [[politician]] in [[Northern Ireland]].

Clark-Glass became a lecturer in law at the [[Queens University of Belfast]] in 1974, and became a known as a commentator on legal and human rights issues<ref name="dental">{{Cite web |date= |title=GDC - About us - Who we are - Fitness to Practise Panel - Mary Clark-Glass |url=http://www.gdc-uk.org/About+us/Who+we+are/Fitness+to+Practise+Panel/Mary+Clark-Glass.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060107032922/http://www.gdc-uk.org/About+us/Who+we+are/Fitness+to+Practise+Panel/Mary+Clark-Glass.htm |archive-date=2006-01-07 |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=General Dental Council}}</ref> and as a prominent [[feminist]].<ref name="euro">{{Cite web |title=The 1994 European Election |url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/fe94.htm |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=www.ark.ac.uk}}</ref> In 1984, she became head of the Northern Ireland [[Equal Opportunities Commission (United Kingdom)|Equal Opportunities Commission]], and also served as a Human Rights Commissioner on the Northern Ireland [[Commission for Racial Equality]] and as Chair of [[Victim Support]]. In 1990, she was appointed a CBE.<ref name="dental" />

The [[Alliance Party of Northern Ireland]] stood Clark-Glass as their candidate for the [[Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency)|Northern Ireland constituency]] in the [[1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|European Parliament election in 1994]], hoping that she would emulate the success of [[Mary Robinson]] in the [[1990 Irish presidential election|Irish presidential election in 1990]]. She took fourth place in the election, making her the best placed candidate not to win a seat, but took only 4.1% of the first preference votes.<ref name="euro" /> Following the election, Clark-Glass acted as part of the Alliance's team for the talks which led to the [[Good Friday Agreement]].<ref name="dental" /> At the [[Northern Ireland Forum]] election of 1996, she was third on the party list in [[Lagan Valley (Assembly constituency)|Lagan Valley]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=1996 Candidates - Lagan Valley |url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/96lv.htm |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=www.ark.ac.uk}}</ref> and eighth on the "top-up" list, but did not come close to being elected.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1996 Elections - List of Candidates |url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/96cands.htm |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=www.ark.ac.uk}}</ref>

In 1997, Clark-Glass was appointed to the [[Commission for Racial Equality]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Divided society: ethnic minorities and racism in Northern Ireland |date=1998 |publisher=Pluto Press |isbn=978-0-7453-1195-1 |editor-last=Hainsworth |editor-first=Paul |edition= |series=Contemporary Irish studies |location=London}}</ref> She subsequently ceased political activity, and in 1999 was appointed to the [[General Medical Council]]. She also became a member of the [[Health Professions Council]] and the [[General Dental Council]].<ref name="dental" />

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[[Category:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland politicians]]
[[Category:Academics of Queen's University Belfast]]
[[Category:Feminists from Northern Ireland]]
[[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Women from Northern Ireland in politics]]
[[Category:20th-century politicians from Northern Ireland]]
[[Category:1944 births]]