Name Dan (Ontario | Role Ontario politician | |
Dan Allen is a former municipal politician in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He served as a member of city council from 1994 to 1997.
Allen was born in Windsor, and was a career civil servant with Canada Manpower before entering political life. He took a leave of absence to work as executive assistant to Windsor Mayor John Millson from January to September 1990. He later co-organized a roast for Millson when he retired as mayor in 1991. Allen was board chairman of Windsor's United Way, and served on Windsor's casino tourism task force in the early 1990s. He received a Governor General's Award in 1993.
Allen was elected to the Windsor City Council in the 1994 municipal election, winning the second of two seats in Ward One. He was endorsed by the Windsor Labour Council, was forty-four years old at the time of his election, and was generally supportive of the existing council's direction. Allen was described as an adept political negotiator, and was a personal friend and ideological ally of Mayor Mike Hurst.
Allen was appointed to the city's planning advisory committee after the vote. He continued working in the public service during his term on council, and was named director of the Windsor Human Resources Centre in April 1996. He was defeated by Mike Roach in the 1997 municipal election, and was appointed to the Windsor Police Services Board in March 1998.
Allen is a Black Canadian, and announced plans to create a business mentorship program for black Canadian youth in 1999. When he was appointed to the police board in 1998, he indicated that he does not support affirmative action policies.