Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

The Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
Official portrait, 2019
Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University
Assumed office
26 July 2018
Preceded byRobert Winston, Baron Winston
Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford
In office
September 2011 – 2018
Preceded byDiana Walford
Succeeded byHelen Mountfield
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
27 October 1997
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Helena Ann Kennedy

(1950-05-12) 12 May 1950 (age 74)
Glasgow, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Iain Louis Hutchison
(m. 1986)
Domestic partnerIain Mitchell (1978–1984)
Children3
OccupationBarrister, television presenter
Websitehelenakennedy.co.uk

Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws (born 12 May 1950), is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, from 2011 to 2018. A Bencher of Gray's Inn, an Honorary Writer to the Signet and the recipient of 42 Honorary Degrees from many universities including those of Glasgow and Edinburgh in recognition of work on women and the law and on widening participation in higher education. She is President of Justice, the law reform think tank, and is also director of the International Bar Association's Institute of Human Rights.