Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market

Rosalind Carol Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market (born 10 August 1957) is a British politician who sits as a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.

The daughter of Kenneth Vincent and Carol Leadbeater, she was born in Bath, Somerset and educated at Whitby Grammar School and Kent School. She was further educated at the University of East Anglia, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in European studies in 1999.

Scott worked for the Passage Day Care Centre and is Honorable President of the East Coast Sailing Trust. She is also patron of the Pickerel Environment Project, the Pakenham Water Mill Trust and the Wings of Hope Charity Appeal. She was a Liberal Democrat councillor in Suffolk from 1991 to 2005, serving at both District and County level. She held a number of positions on Suffolk County Council, including Group Leader. She was appointed to the Local Government Association Transport Executive in 1997, and became Chair in 2001 she is now Vice-President of the organisation. She represented UK local government in Europe as a member of the Committee of the Regions from 1997 to 2001. She is a member of the board of Lloyd's Register she is a member of the think-tank the Commission for Integrated Transport and a non executive director of Entrust, the Landfill Tax regulator.

On 11 May 2000, she was created a life peer as Baroness Scott of Needham Market, of Needham Market in the County of Suffolk. She stood down as the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Communities and Local Government in 2008 to concentrate on being a candidate to be President of the Liberal Democrats. [http://www.im4ros.com/]

Personal life

Scott was married, but was divorced later. She has a son Jamie and a daughter Sally. On 22 April 2008 she married fellow Liberal Democrat, Mark Valladares.

References

External links

* [http://www.ros-scott.org/ Official site]
* [http://www.libdems.org.uk/party/people/person.html?id=219&navPage=lords.html Lib Dem site]
* [http://www.im4ros.com/ Liberal Democrat presidential campaign site]
* [http://baronessrosscott.blogspot.com/ Blog]
* [http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26615 Dods online]