Baroness scotland biography
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Baroness scotland biography
Patricia Scotland
British Dominican barrister, diplomat and Labour life peer (born 1955)
Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, PC, KC (born 19 August 1955), is a Dominican-British barrister and politician, serving as the sixth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations.
She was elected at the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and took office on 1 April 2016. She is the first woman to hold the post.[2]
She was elevated to the House of Lords in 1997 and, as a British Labour Party politician, served in ministerial positions within the UK Government, most notably as the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland.
She is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Dominica, where she was born.[3]
Early life and career
Scotland was born on 19 August 1955 in Dominica, in the British Windward Islands. She was the tenth child of twelve born to Roman Catholic parents,[4] a Dom