Wendy Kinnard
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Wendy Kinnard (born 23 March 1959) is a former Senator of Jersey, and was the island's Home Affairs Minister from 2005 until 2008.
Biography[]
Jersey-born Kinnard gained a BA (Hons) in applied Applied Social Sciences, and a Dip.H.E. in Social and Environmental Problems from the Open University.
She has been past chairwoman of Jersey Women’s Refuge, involved in Jersey Women’s Aid, a member of Network against Abuse and Violence in the Home, a trustee of the Spring Trust, a past member of the Youth Panel 1993-1996
She is a member of Liberty and the Open University Alumni Association.
She was first elected to the States of Jersey in 1996, gaining a Senatorial seat in fourth place at her first attempt at election.[1]
She was President of the Legislation Committee (from 1999), and vice-president of Home Affairs, taking over the Presidency of that Committee in 2002 after Alastair Layzell failed to be re-elected to the States.
She was nominated to the position of Home Affairs Minister on December 5, 2005 following the by the newly elected Chief Minister of Jersey.
On 1 June 2007, she announced that she would not be seeking re-election when her current mandate ended in 2008. On 21 October 2008 she resigned her ministerial post.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jersey Evening Post, 1 June 2007
- ^ "Jersey news, business, sport, weather, travel & pictures". Jersey Evening Post. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
Sources[]
- Jersey Evening Post
- Election Manifesto
- Information from States of Jersey
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Government ministers of Jersey
- Alumni of the Open University
- Senators of Jersey
- Women government ministers of Jersey
- 20th-century British women politicians
- 21st-century British women politicians