Carol Mitchell

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Carol Mitchell is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Huron—Bruce for the Liberal Party.

Mitchell was born in Goderich Township in Huron County and was educated at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. She worked in retailing after her graduation, and ran stores selling children's clothes in Clinton and Bayfield. She was elected to Clinton's town council in 1993, and became its reeve later in the decade. She also served on the Huron County council, and was elected as the first reeve of the amalgamated municipality of Central Huron. She was elected as warden of Huron County in 1999 and 2000.

She won the Liberal nomination for Huron—Bruce in 2002, and defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Helen Johns in the 2003 election by about 3,000 votes (Johns may have ruined her chances for re-election when she refused to address a tainted-meat scandal in Aylmer in mid-campaign). On October 23, 2003, she was named parliamentary assistant to Steve Peters, the Ontario Minister of Agriculture and Food.In March of 2006, Mitchell was named Parliamentary Assitant to David Caplan, the Minister of Public Infrastructure Renewal.