Mary Goudie, Baroness Goudie

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Mary Teresa Goudie, Baroness Goudie (nee Brick , born September 2, 1946 ) is a British economic manager and Labor Party politician who has been a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords since 1998 .

family

Goudie was born to Martin Brick and his wife Hannah Foley. On August 30, 1969, she married lawyer James Cooper Goudie . With him she has two grown sons who work as barristers .

Education, professional and political career

Goudie received her education at Our Lady of The Visitation RC Primary School in Greenford and Our Lady of St. Anselm School . In 1964 she joined the Labor Party and began her political career in local politics . In 1971 she was elected as the youngest politician to be a member of the Council of the London Borough of Brent , of which she was a member until 1978. During this time she was both chairman of the Committee on Housing and Planning and Deputy Whip of the faction of the Labor Party.

Professionally, she was then between 1977 and 1981 executive assistant of the housing company People’s Housing Association and then moved to the party headquarters of the Labor Party, where she was secretary of the party's solidarity campaign between 1981 and 1987. In addition, she was director of the Hansard Society between 1985 and 1989 and then director of House magazine before she worked as a public relations manager at the British WWF from 1990 to 1995 . After becoming an independent public relations consultant, she has been working as a strategy and management consultant since 1998.

With Letters Patent from July 21, 1998 Mary Goudie was raised as a life peeress with the title Baroness Goudie , of Roundwood in the London Borough of Brent , to the British nobility and thus a member of the House of Lords.

During her tenure at the House of Lords, Goudie, who was a member of the Labor Party's campaign team from 1998 to 2001, was both a member of the House of Lords Subcommittee on Law and Institutions of the European Communities and a member of the House of Lords liaison with the Home Office from 1998 to 2001 . She then served as Chair of the House of Lords Organization of her party between 2001 and 2003, and was also a member of the House of Lords Procedural Committee in 2001 and a member of the Finance and Personnel Subcommittee and the House of Lords Communications Committee in 2002.

Awards

In 2000 Goudie received an honorary doctorate from Edinburgh Napier University .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Cooper Goudie's curriculum vitae on the homepage of 11KBW Barristers. (PDF) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Edinburgh Gazette . No. 24441, HMSO, Edinburgh, July 28, 1998, p. 2063 ( PDF , accessed June 14, 2015, English).

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personal data
SURNAME Goudie, Mary, Baroness Goudie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goudie, Mary Teresa, Baroness Goudie (full name); Brick, Mary Teresa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1946