Louise Hunt is a British
coroner
A coroner is a government or judicial official who is empowered to conduct or order an inquest into Manner of death, the manner or cause of death, and to investigate or confirm the identity of an unknown person who has been found dead within th ...
who is currently HM Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, and the first female ever to take up the role, preceded by eight male coroners before her.
Before becoming the coroner, she had left her hometown of
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme ( RP: , ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. The 2011 census population of the town was 75,082, whilst the wider borough had a population of 1 ...
for Birmingham at 18 and worked as a nurse at
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham from 1984, graduating with a law degree in 1992. She was appointed to the rolls as a solicitor in 1995. She was appointed as Birmingham Coroner in 2013 on the resignation of
Aidan Cotter OBE who had been in the role for a little more than a decade. In the process, Louise became the first female coroner in Birmingham and only the ninth person to hold the role of Birmingham Coroner since 1840.
In 2016 she was asked by a campaign of bereaved families to resume the inquest into the
Birmingham pub bombings of 1974.
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