Patricia (Baroness) Black In Britain profile


Baroness Patricial Scotland was responsible for the reform and modernisation of the criminal justice system before being promoted to Attorney General by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in July 2007. Previously she became Home Office Minister of State for the Criminal Justice System and Law Reform in June 2003, spokesperson for the Department of Trade and Industry on women and equality issues in the House of Lords and was Parliamentary Secretary at the Lord Chancellor's department, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
After graduating with LLB Hons (London), Patricia Scotland was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1977, received Silk in 1991 and became a Bencher in 1997. She was born on the beautiful Eastern Caribbean Island of Dominica and is a member of the Bar in both Antigua and the Commonwealth of Dominica. She is an Honorary Fellow of The Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Cambridge and of Cardiff University.	Born in Dominica, she was created Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Oxfordshire, in 1997
Scotland is a Dame of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George. She was a Commissioner for Racial Equality, a former Honorary President of the Trinity Hall Law Society, a former Chairman of the ILEA Disciplinary Tribunal, Chairman of HMG Caribbean Advisory Group, the Dominican Representative of the Council of The British Commonwealth Ex-Service league and served as a member of the Millennium Commission from 1994-99. She's has specialised in family and public law and has chaired and represented parties in a number of Inquiries relating to Child Abuse, Mental Health and Housing. She was voted Black Woman of the Year (Law) 1992. She married in 1985 and has two sons