Janet Harder (born 1951 in Ottawa) is an Ottawa City Councillor representing the ward of Barrhaven. She is the appointed chair of the Ottawa Public Library board, which sets policy and has the ultimate say in decisions affecting the library system. Born at the Civic Hospital in Ottawa, to parents Philip and Blanche Weatherall (née Culhane) she spent her youth in a number of different Ontario cities. Trained as a radiological technician, she eventually became an executive in the grocery business. She was reelected in the 2003 Ottawa election, by defeating newcomer John R. Palmer.