Preceded by Richard Foster | Succeeded by Nick Folland | |
Attorney General The Baroness Scotland of Asthal (–2010)
Dominic Grieve (2010–2014)
Jeremy Wright (2014–retirement) DPP Ken Macdonald (–2008)
Keir Starmer (2008–2013)
Alison Saunders (2013–retirement) | ||
Peter Edward Lewis CB is a retired British prosecutor, serving from 2007 until 2016 as the Chief Executive of the Crown Prosecution Service under the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Lewis qualified as a solicitor in 1981, and started as a prosecutor in West Midlands Prosecuting Solicitors before joining the Crown Prosecution Service at its inception in 1986 when the police prosecutorial offices were merged into a single national body.
Appointed as Chief Executive in January 2007 to replace Richard Foster, Lewis was the first Chief Executive of the service to be appointed from within the ranks having started as a prosecutor. As of 2015, Lewis was paid a salary of between £160,000 and £164,999, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
In February 2016, the CPS announced that Lewis would retire, and be replaced by Nick Folland from 16 March 2016.
Lewis was made a Companion of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2012.