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Judith Mayhew
Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, (born 18 October 1948) is a New Zealand-born British solicitor, local government politician and academic. She is currently the Chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, England, and has been the first woman to hold a number of public roles in the United Kingdom such as a two-year term as Provost of King's College, Cambridge and chair of the Royal Opera House. Early life Born and educated in New Zealand, Judith Mayhew was the daughter of Bill and Joyce Mayhew. She attended Corstorphine Primary School in Dunedin and Otago Girls' High School graduating LLM from the University of Otago. Career She lectured at Otago before moving to the UK as a lecturer in law at the University of Southampton and then King's College London, from 1976 to 1989, where she set up and became director of the Anglo-French Law Degree (University of Paris, Sorbonne), the first joint degree in Europe. In 1986, she entered private practice as an employment lawyer, rising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |