News - News - Patricia Scotland is the First Female and Ethnic Minority Attorney General

29 Jun, 2007

On 28 June 2007, Baroness Scotland of Asthal became the first ethnic minority and the first female Attorney-General. She was the BLD Lawyer of the Month in May 2006.

One of her first priorities as Attorney General has been to produce a consultation paper containing reform proposals of the 500-year-old office to make it "fit for the 21st century".

 

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