Dame Juliet Louise Wheldon DCB, QC (26 March 1950 – 2 September 2013) was a British civil servant, latterly (as of 2009) the legal adviser to Mervyn King, the Governor of the

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. From July 2000 until 2006 she was the first British woman to serve as Treasury Solicitor and Head of the Government Legal Service. In 2008 she was named as one of ''The Times Law 100''.

Education

Wheldon attended

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and

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, where she read history, before being

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in 1975.

Career

* Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1976–83), Advisory Division * Law Officers' Department (1983–84) * Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1984–86), Assistant Legal Secretary * Law Officers' Department (1986–87) * Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1987–89), Legal Adviser * Law Officers' Department (1989–97), Legal Secretary * Home Office (1997–2000), Legal Adviser * HM Procurator General Office, Treasury Solicitor/Head of the Government Legal Service (2000–06)Debrett's biography of Juliet Wheldon

Affiliations

* Patron, Human Rights Lawyers' Association

Honours

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(2004) * Queen's Counsel (Hon.) (1997) *

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(2004)

Personal life

Dame Juliet Wheldon was unmarried and had no children. She died of cancer on 2 September 2013.

References

External links

Bank of England website

Debrett's

''The Guardian'', Saturday, 5 November 2005

''London Gazette'' notice of Juliet Wheldon appointment as DCB
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