Jenny Randerson, Baroness Randerson
| The Right Honourable The Baroness Randerson |
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| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Wales Office | |
| In office 5 September 2012 – May 2015 [1] |
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| Preceded by | David Jones |
| Succeeded by | Nick Bourne |
| Deputy First Minister for Wales Acting |
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| In office 6 July 2001 – 13 June 2002 |
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| First Minister | Rhodri Morgan |
| Preceded by | Michael German |
| Succeeded by | Michael German |
| Minister for Culture, Sport and the Welsh Language | |
| In office 16 February 2000 – 30 April 2003 |
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| First Minister | Rhodri Morgan |
| Preceded by | New post |
| Succeeded by | Alun Pugh |
| Member of the Welsh Assembly for Cardiff Central |
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| In office 6 May 1999 – 5 May 2011 |
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| Preceded by | New Assembly |
| Succeeded by | Jenny Rathbone |
| Majority | 6,565 (29.3%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 May 1948 |
| Political party | Welsh Liberal Democrats |
| Spouse(s) | Peter Randerson |
| Residence | Cardiff, Wales, UK |
| Alma mater | Bedford College, London |
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Jennifer Elizabeth Randerson, Baroness Randerson (born 26 May 1948) is a Welsh Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.[2] She is former junior minister in the Wales Office, with specific responsibility for education.
She is a former Cardiff councillor and was an AM from 1999 to 2011, when she was created a life peer. She was a member of the Welsh Labour-Lib Dem administration of the 2000–2003 Welsh Assembly Government.[3]
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Background
Randerson was educated at Bedford College, University of London, BSc Physiology and Biochemistry, 1983, now part of Royal Holloway, University of London.[4] She was a Cardiff councillor 1983-2000 and was a lecturer at Cardiff Tertiary College. She led the official opposition on the Council in Cardiff for four years. She introduced "Creative Future", a culture strategy for Wales and "Iaith Pawb", a strategy for the promulgation of the Welsh language.[5]
National Assembly for Wales
She was Minister for Culture, Sport and the Welsh Language in the Liberal Democrat/Labour Partnership Government from 2000 to 2003. She was acting Welsh Deputy First Minister from 6 July 2001 to 13 June 2002. She was Health and Social Services; Equal Opportunities and Finance Spokeswoman for the Welsh Liberal Democrats during the Second Assembly. She chaired Assembly Business and Standing Orders Committees during the Second Assembly.[citation needed]
Jenny stood for the leadership of the Welsh Liberal Democrats in 2008 but was defeated by Kirsty Williams who gained 60% to Jenny's 40% of the all member ballot. In the third Assembly Jenny Randerson was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Education, Transport and the Economy. She did not seek re-election at the 2011 Assembly elections, with Nigel Howells - her Liberal Democrat successor, being narrowly defeated by Jenny Rathbone.[citation needed]
House of Lords
On 27 January 2011, she was created a life peer as Baroness Randerson, of Roath Park in the City of Cardiff[6] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 31 January 2011,[7] and sits on the Liberal Democrat benches. On 4 September 2012, she was appointed a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office.[8]
Baroness Randerson is the first female Welsh Liberal Democrat to hold ministerial office at Westminster and the first Welsh Liberal to hold a ministerial post since Gwilym Lloyd-George in 1945. She is also the first female non Labour Welsh politician to hold a government post at Westminster.[citation needed]
References
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- Jenny Randerson AM official biography at the Welsh Assembly website
- Jenny Randerson AM profile at the site of Welsh Liberal Democrats
Offices held
| National Assembly for Wales | ||
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Assembly Member for Cardiff Central 1999 – 2011 |
Succeeded by Jenny Rathbone |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by
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Minister for Culture, Sport and the Welsh Language 2000 – 2003 |
Succeeded by Alun Pugh |
| Preceded by | Deputy First Minister for Wales 6 July 2001 – 13 June 2002 (acting) |
Succeeded by Michael German |
| Preceded by | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Wales Office 5 September 2012 - |
Succeeded by |
- ↑ http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/baroness-randerson/4230
- ↑ Notice of life peerage for Jenny Randerson, number10.gov.uk; accessed 20 March 2014.
- ↑ Profile, BBC.co.uk; accessed 20 March 2014.
- ↑ Royal Holloway College, Higher Magazine No.17, autumn 2012, accessed 24 November 2012
- ↑ Jenny Randerson official website; accessed 20 March 2014.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 59687. p. 1657. 1 February 2011.
- ↑ House of Lords Business, Monday 31 January 2011; accessed 20 March 2014.
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- Councillors in Cardiff
- Liberal Democrat Members of the National Assembly for Wales
- Wales AMs 1999–2003
- Wales AMs 2003–07
- Wales AMs 2007–11
- Members of the Welsh Assembly Government
- Alumni of Bedford College (London)
- Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London
- Female members of the National Assembly for Wales
- Liberal Democrat life peers
- Female life peers
- Liberal Democrat (UK) councillors
