Judith Jolly, Baroness Jolly
Judith Jolly, Baroness Jolly (* April 27, 1951 in Leamington Spa ) is a British teacher and Member of the House of Lords.
Biography
Judith Jolly went to Warwick to school. She graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in control engineering engineer, and then at the University of Nottingham, where she studied mathematics as a teacher in a graduate course. She is married and has two sons.
A large part of her professional life she spent in the far southwest of England. She taught math for over 15 years and was a pioneer of this information and data processing in schools. She was also Chief of Staff for a Member of Parliament, Lord Teverson. In 1984, she joined the Liberal Party.
In the 1990s she lived for three years in Oman, while her husband made service in the Royal Navy of Oman. During this time she worked for the British Council as a teacher of English as a foreign language and as a mentor for students who aspired to a National Vocational Qualification.
She was 1994 Chair Robin Teversons election campaign for the European Parliament. In the British general election, 1997, she was an agent for Paul Tyler's campaign. Also in 1997, the non-executive director on for an NHS Trust for mental illness and learning difficulties, and thereafter for an NHS Primary Care Trust and eventually took over the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of NHS primary care trust in north-east Cornwall before its recent restructuring of the NHS in 2006. She was a lay inspector for the Commission to improve health.
Judith Jolly, 1999 was deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Candidates Association. From 2002, she served for two terms in the Federal Policy Committee of the Liberal Democrats. She was active at that time actively to the community and voluntary associations, on the boards of the Citizens Advice Bureau, Credit Union, regeneration organizations and as a member of the Diocesan Synod. Here, her focus was on highlighting the problems of poverty and rural life.
In 2007, she served on the Board of the Regional Executive for Devon and Cornwall. She was chairman of a non-profit IT company in Cornwall which manufactures material for memory clinics. She was appointed in 2010 as Baroness Jolly of Congdon's Shop in the County of Cornwall as a peer in the House of Lords.