Caroline Kate (Kay) Young (born January 30, 1944) is a former Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Terra Nova in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1993 to 1996 as a member of the Liberal Party.^[1]

The daughter of Wallace Diamond and Nellie Emberley, she was born Caroline Kate Diamond in Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador and was educated at Memorial University. She was a teacher in Lethbridge from 1967 to 1993. She married Walter Young.^[1]

She defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Glen Greening to win a seat in the Newfoundland assembly in 1993.^[2] Young was Minister of Social Services and Minister responsible for the Status of Women.^[1] She ran unsuccessfully in the redistributed riding of Bonavista South in 1996, losing to Roger Fitzgerald.^[3]