In October 2025, the Croquet New Zealand Members unanimously voted to adopt the new constitution to comply with the Incorporated Societies Act 2022. The existing Board on adoption of the new constitution became the Initial Board of CNZ until a new Board is elected under the new constitution.
CNZ is currently in the process of electing a new Board and it is expected that the new Board will assume authority some time in December 2025.
The Initial Board is:
| Dr Graeme Roberts (Chair) | Graeme was seconded to the CNZ Board on 19 August 2025 to fill a vacancy, and was elected Chair of the Board on 29 September 2025. Graeme is a Life Member of CNZ and a member of the World Croquet Federation (WCF) Management Committee. Graeme is also an inductee of both the WCF and the CNZ Hall of Fame |
Tony O’Donnell Elected Member Elected – AGM 2021 Re-elected – AGM 2023 Club: United Croquet Club Association: Canterbury | Tony worked as a Chemical Engineer where he developed expansion projects, firstly at a pulp mill and then NZ Steel before he moved into management. During the early stages of the Electricity sector reorganisation, Tony completed a Business Studies degree and became Divisional Manager of Retail. Tony progressed to an Executive at United Electricity where he was responsible for the gross margin, dealings with major suppliers and was Chairman of the Risk Management Committee. During this tenure, Tony was also an influential member of the MARIA Committee which developed the rules for trading electricity. Following his retirement, some twenty years ago, Tony took up croquet. First with golf croquet and then learning association croquet. Tony has held many roles during his croquet career including terms as the President and Treasurer for his club, United Croquet Club. Treasurer for the Canterbury Croquet Association, tournament manager at local, regional and national tournaments and is also an examining referee for golf croquet. Tony was elected Chair of the Croquet New Zealand Board in November 2021. |
| Dallas Cooke Elected Member Elected – AGM 2021 Re-elected AGM 2023 Club: Croquet Mt Maunganui Association: Bay of Plenty | Coming soon. |
Judith Hanratty CVO OBE Appointed Member Appointed: May 2021 Re-appointed May 2023 Member of the Croquet Association | Judith’s early career was in law. She has been called to the Bar in England (Inner Temple); in the State of Victoria, in Australia; and in New Zealand where she was educated and spent the first twenty years of her career. She holds an LLB; LLM (Hons) and Hon LLD from Victoria University of Wellington, where she was a member of the Council and Non-Executive Treasurer for ten years until she relocated to the UK in 1986. In NZ she was also a member of the inaugural Board of Telecom NZ. She has lived in Heretaunga, near Wellington since her return to New Zealand in January 2020. Over a period of some 30 years, she was a member of the boards of companies listed on the London and New York Stock Exchanges in the energy and insurance sectors and of UK statutory bodies including the Council of Lloyd’s of London (where she was Chairman of the Market Supervision Committee), the Gas and Electricity Markets’ Authority, the Competition Commission, and the Takeover Panel. She has represented NZ at golf and was a member of the Board of England Golf for five years following the merger of the men’s and women’s governing bodies. She is a member of the Croquet Association in the UK. In 2002 she was awarded the OBE for services to the oil and gas industry in the UK; and in 2007 she was appointed by HM The Queen to be a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. She is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. |
| John Borner | John was seconded to the CNZ Board on 29 September 2025, to fill a vacancy. |
