Barbara Janke, Baroness Janke

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Barbara Janke, Baroness Janke

Barbara Lilian Janke, Baroness Janke (born June 5, 1947 in Liverpool ) is a British politician and life peer .

Life

Janke joined the Liberal Democrats in 1978 . In 1981 she graduated from the Open University with a degree in economics and politics and then worked as a teacher of modern languages ​​and economics in London , Paris and the Bristol area . She is also a teacher of English as a Foreign Language.

In 1986 she was elected to the Council of Kingston upon Thames , in which she was party spokeswoman for education in 1987 and deputy group leader of the Liberal Democrats the following year. She was a member of the council until 1994. In 1992 she ran in the House of Commons elections , but was defeated in the Surbiton constituency against Richard Tracey of the Conservative Party . In 1994 she worked for MP Don Foster , the following year she moved to Bristol, where she was elected to the city council. In 1997, she was there as the successor to Stephen Williams parliamentary group chairman. Janke was chairwoman of the Bristol City Council three times: from 2003 to 2004, from 2005 to 2007 and most recently from 2009 until her resignation in 2012.

On September 24, 2014, she was promoted to Life Peer as Baroness Janke , of Clifton in the City and County of Bristol. She has been a member of the House of Lords ever since .

Janke is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alan Wood, Robert Wood (Ed.): Guide to the House of Commons April 1992. Times Books, London 1992, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-7230-0497-4 .
  2. ↑ a b c Article on resignation as Council Chairwoman on bbc.com, accessed on February 17, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d Portrait on libdems.org.uk (Eng.) Accessed on February 17, 2015
  4. ^ Announcement of the nomination as Life Peer in the London Gazette on September 30, 2014, accessed on February 17, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Janke, Barbara, Baroness Janke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janke, Barbara Lilian, Baroness Janke (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, life peer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool