Jacquelin Holzman is a former mayor of Ottawa (1991–1997), with more than 15 years’ experience in politics and over 25 years of community service.

From 1956 to the late 1970s, during the founding of the Rehabilitation Institute of Ottawa, she was a volunteer, planning and developing housing, employment and rehabilitation services for elderly persons and people with disabilities. She later became chair of the board of directors for the Royal Ottawa Hospital, and played a leadership role in the planning of the new Regional Rehabilitation Centre in 1981.

She served as chair of the Ottawa Congress Centre from 1998 to 2003, has been involved in fundraising for The Ottawa Hospital Foundation and the Ottawa Boys and Girls Club, and has served as governor of Algonquin College, the Community Foundation of Ottawa and as the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa. She is currently a member of the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa, honorary chair of Breast Cancer Action, and chair of the Ottawa Health Research Institute.

Co-author of Ottawa Then & Now, a 200-year retrospective of Canada’s capital city, she has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa and a YM-YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Lifetime Achievement.