Jessica Lee | |
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Member of Parliament for Erewash |
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In office 6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015 |
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Preceded by | Liz Blackman |
Succeeded by | Maggie Throup |
Personal details | |
Born |
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
7 April 1976
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater | Royal Holloway, University of London; College of Law |
Website | www |
Jessica Katherine Lee (born 7 April 1976) was a British Conservative Party politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Erewash in Derbyshire in 2010. She served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, before stepping down for the 2015 general election.
Lee was born in Nottingham on 7 April 1976, educated at Loughborough High School and Royal Holloway, University of London, where she graduated with a degree in History & Politics in 1997 and served as Chair of the college's Conservative Students Society. She was the first person from her family to go to university.
Lee went on to study at the College of Law. She was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 2000, and practised as a barrister specialising in family law.
At the 2005 general election, Lee stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Conservative Party in Camberwell and Peckham, finishing third with 9.8% of the vote in a constituency won by the incumbent Labour Party MP Harriet Harman.