She was 35 years old, making her the youngest person in over 200 years to be appointed to the silk. She specialised in family and children’s law at Middle Temple. She went on to serve as a member of the Commission for Racial Equality and received a life peerage in 1997.

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Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Patricia Scotland elected the 6th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, the first woman to hold the position

Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal becomes the first woman appointed Attorney General for England and Wales and Adovate General for Northern Island

Baroness Scotland of Asthal becomes the first black woman to be appointed to Queen’s Counsel 

Baroness Patricia Scotland