Diane Leek

Diane Leek
107th Lord Mayor of Sheffield
In office 2003–2004
Preceded by	Marjorie Barker
Succeeded by	Mike Pye
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Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal Democrat

Diane Leek is a serving Liberal Democrat member of Sheffield City Council in Sheffield, England. She was the 107th Lord Mayor of Sheffield, serving for the customary one year in 2003-04. She was preceded by Marjorie Barker and succeeded by Mike Pye.

Early life

Diane Wainwright Leek was born in Jessop's Hospital, Sheffield, in 1954 to parents from Bolsterstone and Ewden Valley who, after living in various locations around the city, settled in Totley. Leek moved to Walkley in 1980, where she continues to reside.

She first attended Totley County Primary School and then Abbeydale Secondary Modern, a school with which she is very proud to be associated, and which later merged with King Ecgbert Girls Grammar to become Abbeydale Grange School.

Leek was a Sunday School teacher for four years at Totley Methodist Church and a Lieutenant in the Junior Section of the 22nd Totley Rise Boy's Brigade for six years.

In 1976 she married Robert and they have one daughter and one son, Louise and Christopher, and two grandsons, Bradley and Kyle.

Having an interest in education and the local community, Leek became a Governor at Walkley Infant and Junior School, a school that her children attended. She held the post for eight years from 1984.

Two by-elections

Leek became involved in politics in 1992 when she assisted with the campaign to re-instate the School Clothing Grant. She was elected to serve on Sheffield City Council in the November 1992 by-election, but the election had to be re-run in January 1993. Although working for an outsourced contractor as a dinner lady, and having been assured that she was not a City Council employee, it was ruled that she was an employee, and the election was declared void. ^[1] After resigning her job, Leek won the run-run election increasing her majority sixfold from 184 to 1092 ^[2]

References

1. ^ "Labour reels from latest poll defeat". Sheffield Star. 1992-11-27. 
2. ^ "Diane grabs Labour seat". Sheffield Star. 1993-01-15. 

• "List of past Lord Mayors". Sheffield City Council. http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/your-city-council/lord-mayor/past-lord-mayors. Retrieved 2010-02-03. 

External links

• Lord Mayor of Sheffield
• Biography of Lord May Diane Leek

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