Iona Sara Macintyre McDonald OBE (born 18 November 1954) has been Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Arran since 2017. McDonald was educated at

Cumnock Academy Cumnock Academy was a secondary school in Cumnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. Notable former pupils include Iona McDonald, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Arran since 2017; Bill Grant, MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock; and Eric Caldow Eric C ...

and graduated from

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with a Master of Arts in 1976 and a law degree in 1978. She is a solicitor, and previously worked for the

Ayr Ayr (; sco, Ayr; gd, Inbhir Àir, "Mouth of the River Ayr") is a town situated on the southwest coast of Scotland. It is the administrative centre of the South Ayrshire Subdivisions of Scotland, council area and the historic Shires of Scotlan ...

firm Mathie-Morton, Black and Buchanan, where she became partner in 1982. She was appointed as a temporary sheriff in 1994, was the sheriff of North Strathclyde from 2000 to 2007; and senior sheriff of Kilmarnock since then. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to law and order in the Queen's Birthday Honours' List 2019.

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