Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar

The Baroness Prashar
Official portrait, 2022
Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission
In office
3 April 2006 – 7 February 2011
Preceded byOffice created
Succeeded byChristopher Stephens
Chancellor of De Montfort University
In office
2000–2006
Vice-ChancellorPhilip Tasker
Preceded byJohn White
Succeeded byThe Lord Alli
Members of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
15 July 1999
Life Peerage
Director of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations
In office
1986–1991
Preceded byBill Griffiths
Succeeded byJudy Weleminsky
Personal details
Born
Usha Kumari Prashar

(1948-06-29) 29 June 1948 (age 76)
NationalityBritish

Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar is a British politician and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chair of a variety of public and private sector organisations. She became the first chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006.