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Preceded by
  
New Assembly

Succeeded by
  
Eleanor Burnham


Name
  
Christine Humphreys

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Political party
  
Welsh Liberal Democrats

Christine Humphreys, Baroness Humphreys is the President of the Welsh Liberal Democrats and was Member of the Welsh Assembly for the North Wales regional constituency from 1999 to 2001. She was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Wales on Economics and the Environment.

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Humphreys was a teacher before election to the National Assembly for Wales, Head of Vocational Education in a Welsh Medium School. Eleanor Burnham succeeded as Liberal Democrat AM for North Wales on 22 March 2001 upon Humphreys' resignation due to ill health.

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In November 2007 she was elected President of the party, defeating Bob Barton and John Last. She succeeded Rob Humphreys.

In August 2013 she was appointed a working peer, but she has said that she favours Lords Reform. She was created a life peer on 18 September 2013 taking the title Baroness Humphreys, of Llanrwst in the County of Conwy and, unusually, taking the oath in Welsh.

References

Christine Humphreys Wikipedia