Joy Morrissey


Joy Morrissey is a British Conservative Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield since the 2019 general election.

Early life

Morrissey was born in Indiana. She attended Worthington Christian High School and graduated in 1999. Morrissey received a master's degree specialising in European Social Policy from the London School of Economics.

Political career

Morrissey was elected as a Conservative councillor on the Ealing Council, where she represented the ward of Hanger Hill, until April 2020.
She was a London-wide list candidate at the 2016 London Assembly election.
She unsuccessfully contested Ealing Central and Acton in the 2017 general election.
She unsuccessfully sought nomination to be the London Conservatives mayoral candidate for the 2021 London mayoral election and made it through to the final three shortlist.
In 2019 Morrissey was selected as the new Conservative candidate for Beaconsfield. At the snap December election Morrissey defeated former Conservative Dominic Grieve, who had represented Beaconsfield for 22 years, who contested the seat as an Independent. Upon election she became the third American-born female MP overall, the first to enter Parliament after a general election, and also the first American woman in more than 80 years to receive votes as a winning candidate.
In 2020, Morrissey was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.