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DAwn BuTLEr
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MArgArET CASELy-HAyforD
Labour MP, vice-Chair, Labour Party Director of Legal Services, John Lewis Partnership
DAwn BuTLEr IS the Labour ovEr HEr 20-year career as a
Member of Parliament City lawyer, Margaret became
for London’s Brent South renowned as one of the country’s
constituency. She was elected foremost planning practitioners.
in the May 2005 elections and In 1998, she became the first black
is one of only two black female female to be made a Partner of
MPs. As chair of the All-Party a City law firm (Denton wilde
Parliamentary youth Affairs Sapte).
group and a Member of the Select under her joint leadership,
Committee on Children, Schools her team was regularly voted
and families, Dawn regularly top of the Legal 500 list of
campaigns on a number of planning law teams in the
issues. More recently she’s been country, obtaining the consents
particularly vocal about youth knife crime – there are more than for the Stamford Bridge redevelopment, among other things.
200 knife incidents in Brent each year. She also acted as lead legal advisor to the London Borough
As a trade union official she saw the difference politics of Camden during the development of the £2bn king’s Cross
and political parties can make and has taken a strong interest regeneration project. In 2006 she was snapped up by JLP, one of
in poverty, unemployment, children’s welfare, equality and the uk’s top 10 retail businesses. She is also a Special Trustee
employment rights. one of the most down-to-earth people in a of great ormond Street Hospital and a Trustee of the geffrye
position of power you are likely to meet. Museum.
The panel said:
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‘Beginning to carve
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The panel said:
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‘A serial pioneer,
us,
out a niche for herself. Likely to gr
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JACkIE DAvIDSon
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LInDA DoBBS QC
Director, JD Management High Court Judge
JACkIE DAvIDSon has an ear In 2004 Sierra Leone-born Linda
for music, an eye for talent and became Britain’s first black High
a head for business. for more Court judge. This remains a major
than 20 years, she has been at the feat given the overwhelmingly
hub of uk black music, running a white and male world of the
company that encompasses artist senior judiciary, in which just
management, marketing, Pr and 10 out of 106 High Court judges
publishing. on the management are women and she is the only
side her clients include fellow minority ethnic face.
Powerlist entry wayne Hector, Ms Justice Dobbs, 57, before
and the marketing arm of her becoming a judge, was a leading
business has boasted LL Cool J, criminal QC, who was Chair of
Beyonce and Janet Jackson as the Criminal Bar Association,
clients. Jackie began her career managing Bunny wailer’s record the biggest specialist group at the bar. She chaired the bar’s
label, Solomonic. She went on to co-found the highly influential Professional Standards Committee, too, and has spent much of
uk pirate radio station Lwr and the music forum International her career campaigning for equality for ethnic minorities. She
African American Association of Music. Her influential status is devotes much of her free time to working with young adults and
consolidated now that she sits on the Music Managers’ forum, children. The daughter of an English father and a Sierra Leonean
PrS writers Panel and acts as an advisor to The Prince’s Trust mother, she spent her early years in Africa, where her father ran
Panel and The Music & Media Diversity group. his own law firm.
The panel said:
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‘Her influence in the
us,
The panel said:
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‘She will be a great
us,
music business str
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etches from Britain inspiration to anyone aspiring to the
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to America to the Caribbean.’
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highest levels of the judiciar
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