Kathie Nukon

Who is Kathie Nukon?

Kathie Emma Nukon is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Old Crow in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1985. She was a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party.

The daughter of a trading post owner in Old Crow, Nukon studied in Whitehorse to be a nursing assistant, but worked mainly as an office manager and bookkeeper in her father's store until her election to the legislature.

She ran again as a Yukon Party candidate in the 2000 election, but was not re-elected to the legislature.

She is currently serving on the band council of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation. She also previously served on that body from 1996 to 1998.