Catherine Nelson (born Catherine Seeley; 26 November 1987) is a Sinn Féin politician from Northern Ireland. She was an MLA for Upper Bann from the 2016 election until 2017.

Previously a schoolteacher at the non-denominational Belfast Boys' Model School, she resigned after allegedly enduring a campaign of harassment, which began after she was co-opted as a Sinn Féin councillor on Craigavon Borough Council in 2014. The Protestant Coalition opposed her employment at the school over her affiliation with Sinn Féin.

Catherine Nelson

On 16 January 2017, it was announced she would not seeking re-election at the 2017 assembly election and would return to work as a schoolteacher.

Catherine Nelson

In 2018, she was co-opted as a councillor onto Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council.

Catherine Nelson

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1987 births

Living people

Sinn Féin MLAs

Northern Ireland MLAs 2016–2017

Alumni of Queen's University Belfast

People from Lurgan

Members of Craigavon Borough Council

Female members of the Northern Ireland Assembly

Schoolteachers from Northern Ireland

Sinn Féin councillors in Northern Ireland

Sinn Féin parliamentary candidates

Women councillors in Northern Ireland