Maggie O'Connell

Mary Margaret O’Connell (born 1962), known as Maggie, is a fictional character in the television series Northern Exposure, and was played by actress Janine Turner. Maggie was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to the youngest CEO in automotive history. She became a bush pilot at an early age and went to Alaska with her boyfriend Dave, who was writing a book on mountain climbing. He fell asleep unprotected on a glacier and froze to death. Maggie remained in the small town of Cicely, Alaska, flying an air taxi and supplementing her income as the local real estate agent. She served a term as mayor of Cicely. She has a love-hate relationship with the town's resident physician, Joel Fleischman, to whom she was even engaged at one point....