Johanna Ropner (née Stroyan) is a businessperson and the
lord lieutenant for North Yorkshire.
Life
Ropner, the second of three children, was born on 3 January 1963 to Colin Strathearn Ropner Stroyan and Caroline Jane Brownlow. She attended
Newcastle University where she graduated with an honours degree in agriculture.
Ropner was confirmed as the successor to
Barry Dodd
Barry John Dodd (2 October 1947 – 30 May 2018) was an entrepreneur who ran a graphics company, GSM Group. He was appointed as the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire in September 2014. Dodd was killed in a helicopter crash in North Yorksh ...
in November 2018. The vacancy had arisen after Dodd died in a helicopter crash, and Ropner had previously been a deputy lord-lieutenant of North Yorkshire under Dodd, and his predecessor,
Lord Crathorne.
Personal life
Ropner lives in
Kirklington with her husband, Robert Ropner. The couple are third cousins. Together they have three grown-up children.
References
External links
NYLL webpage
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Lord-Lieutenants of North Yorkshire
1963 births
Living people