Joan Carson is a former Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Enniskillen, Carson studied at Enniskillen Collegiate School and Stranmillis College before working as a teacher. In 1997 she was elected to Dungannon Borough Council for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and at the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998, she was elected in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.Carson stood down from her council seat in 2001 and from her Assembly seat at the 2003 election.