Joanna Penn, Baroness Penn

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The Right Honourable
The Baroness Penn
Official portrait of Baroness Penn 2020 crop 2.jpg
Official portrait, 2020
Baroness-in-waiting
Government Whip
Assumed office
9 March 2020
On Leave: 15 September 2021 - Present
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byThe Lord Bethell
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
21 October 2019
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born1985 (age 36–37)
Political partyConservative

Joanna Carolyn Penn, Baroness Penn (born 1985), known as JoJo Penn,[1] is a British political advisor. She was appointed Baroness-in-waiting in March 2020 but is currently a Minister on Leave; her duties are being fulfilled in her absence by Carlyn Chisholm, Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen.

Biography[]

She served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from 2016 to 2019.[2][3] In September 2019, it was announced that she would be made a Conservative Party life peer in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[4] She was created Baroness Penn, of Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond, on 10 October 2019.[5] Baroness Penn was the youngest member of the House of Lords,[6] from when she joined the House on 26 October 2019 until the election of Lord Harlech on 14 July 2021.

References[]

  1. ^ "Theresa May appoints top allies to House of Lords". POLITICO. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ^ Mason, Rowena; Scruton, Paul; Fenn, Chris (4 October 2017). "Theresa May's team: the PM's inner and outer circles". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  3. ^ "The Top 100 Most Influential People on the Right: Iain Dale's 2017 List". LBC. 2 October 2017. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Resignation Honours 2019". GOV.UK. Cabinet Office. Archived from the original on 10 September 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  5. ^ "No. 62798". The London Gazette. 16 October 2019. p. 18552.
  6. ^ "Membership and principal office holders". UK Parliament. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
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