Verity Mary Barton (born 6 August 1985) is an Australian politician who is the LNP member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Broadwater, having defeated Peta-Kaye Croft at the 2012 state election.Barton was educated at All Hallows' School in Brisbane. She went onto further studies in law and politics at Bond University on the Gold Coast and Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois.