Jean Corston, Baroness Corston

Jean Ann Corston, Baroness Corston, PC ( born May 5, 1942) is a British politician of the Labour Party.

Early life

Jean Ann Parkin went to the Yeovil Girls' High School in Yeovil, Somerset College of Arts and Technology. She worked with the tax authorities. At the London School of Economics, she graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Laws from. From 1989 to 1990 she studied at the Inns of Court School of Law and the Open University. After her graduation she joined the Barrister.

Political career

Corsten from 1992 to 2005, Member of Parliament for the Labour Party in the constituency of Bristol East. Before the loss of your mandate in the parliamentary election in 2005, she was Group Leader of the Labour Party as the first woman to hold this position had ..

On 13 May 2005 it was announced that you would be appointed to the Life peer Baroness Corston and it was on 29 June 2005.

It was from the Home Office ( interior ministry ) was commissioned to create about women in the British criminal justice system, which was published in 2007 an investigation. The report was under the name Corston report known

Personal

In 1961 she married Christopher Corston with whom she has a son and a daughter. From 1980 until his death in 2009, her partner was the sociologist Peter Townsend. They married in 1985.