Juliet Wheldon

Dame Juliet Louise Wheldon DCB, QC (26 March 1950 – 2 September 2013) was a British civil servant, latterly (as of 2009) the legal adviser to Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England. From July 2000 until 2006 she was the first British woman to serve as Treasury Solicitor and Head of the Government Legal Service. In 2008 she was named as one of The Times Law 100.

Education

Wheldon attended Sherborne School For Girls and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read history,^[1] before being called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1975.

Career

Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1976–83), Advisory Division
Law Officers' Department (1983–84)
Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1984–86), Assistant Legal Secretary
Law Officers' Department (1986–87)
Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1987–89), Legal Adviser
Law Officers' Department (1989–97), Legal Secretary
Home Office (1997–2000), Legal Adviser
HM Procurator General Office, Treasury Solicitor/Head of the Government Legal Service (2000–06)^[2]

Affiliations

Patron, Human Rights Lawyers' Association

Honours

Commander of the Order of the Bath (2004)
Queen's Counsel (Hon.) (1997)
Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (2004)

Personal life

Dame Juliet Wheldon was unmarried and had no children. She died of cancer on 2 September 2013.^[3]

References

^ "LMH, Oxford - Prominent Alumni". Retrieved 22 May 2015.
^ Debrett's biography of Juliet Wheldon Archived 2010-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
^ https://www. Theguardian. Com/profile/shamichakrabarti (9 September 2013), "Dame Juliet Wheldon obituary", the Guardian, retrieved 21 August 2020

External links

Legal offices
Preceded by Sir Anthony Hammond	HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor 2000–2006	Succeeded by Sir Paul Jenkins

[1] "LMH, Oxford - Prominent Alumni". Retrieved 22 May 2015.

[2] Debrett's biography of Juliet Wheldon Archived 2010-03-01 at the Wayback Machine

[the_Guardian_2013-09-09-3] ttps://www. Theguardian. Com/profile/shamichakrabarti (9 September 2013), "Dame Juliet Wheldon obituary", the Guardian, retrieved 21 August 2020

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