Be Inspired! Margaret Casely-Hayford is the New Coventry University chancellor

MARGARET Casely-Hayford has been named the first female chancellor of Coventry University.
and also said to be the UK’s ‘first black woman to be made a partner at a city law firm’.

She is chair of international development charity Action Aid UK, a Co-op board member and co-manages rap artist Kelvyn Colt.
She takes over the ambassadorial role at Coventry University from Sir John Egan, former BAA and Jaguar Land Rover CEO, following his 10 years in the post.
She studied Law at Somerville College, Oxford University, and was called to the Bar in 1983 and joined Denton Hall Law Firm (now SNR Denton) four years later to specialise in planning law, and in 1998 was made partner – a first for a black woman.
She was director of legal services at John Lewis Partnership from 2006 to 2014, and was a non-executive director of NHS England.
A Freeman of the City of London she serves on the Metropolitan Police Oversight Panel to investigate corruption and spent eight years as a government appointed trustee of Great Ormond St Children’s Hospital Charity.
In 2008 The Black Power List named the Casely-Hayfords the most influential black family in the UK and in 2014 she was named Black British Business Person of the Year.

source; Coventry Observer http://bit.ly/2uBQquf