Cleonne Stapleton-Simmonds | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Nevis Island Assembly | |
| Assumed office March 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph Parry |
| Constituency | Constituency #5 |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Nevis Reformation Party (until 2023) Independent (from 2023) |
Cleone Stapleton-Simmonds is a Nevisian attorney and politician serving as a member of the Nevis Island Assembly for the 5th constituency.
Stapleton-Simmonds was first elected in March 2020 to the Nevis Island Assembly in a by-election for the St Thomas’Parish/5th constituency as a member of the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP),following the retirement of the incumbent NRP representative Joseph Parry. [1] [2] Following this result,she became the first woman elected as a parliamentary representative of the NRP. [3]
She was re-elected at the 2022 election, [4] however,was later removed from the NRP in 2023 over disagreements with party leader and fellow parliamentary representative Janice Daniel-Hodge about who should become Leader of the Opposition. [5] [6] Stapleton-Simmonds currently sits as an independent representative in the Nevis Island Assembly. [7]