Jody Carr

Jody Carr (born July 3, 1975 in Saint John, New Brunswick) is a New Brunswick politician. He is the current member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for the riding of Oromocto-Gagetown and serves as the Progressive Conservative Party's caucus chair.

Carr first got involved with politics just after graduating from Oromocto High School in 1993 as class president. He volunteered in the 1993 federal election.

Carr ran for the first time in the 1995 provincial election and was the youngest ever Progressive Conservative candidate for MLA in New Brunswick at the age of 20. Carr received 28% of the vote which was the best showing of all 8 PC candidates in the greater Fredericton Region. Though he was defeated in that election, he stayed involved in his riding and his party and co-chaired the 1997 leadership convention which elected Bernard Lord. Carr kept active in his riding while finishing his university degree. After graduating with a Bachelor of Business Administration Carr worked under Lord in the office of the official opposition before being elected in the 1999 election and re-elected in 2003.

Following the 2003 election, it was widely speculated that Carr would be appointed to cabinet because of his electoral success (he won ever single poll in his riding by one of the largest margins in the province). Though he was not made a member of the cabinet at that time, media speculates that he is a likely candidate for cabinet should Bernard Lord undertake a cabinet shuffle before the next election.