Judith Blake

Judith Blake is the leader of Leeds City Council in West Yorkshire, England, and the Leeds Labour Group. She has held these positions since May 2015. She is the first woman to serve as leader of Leeds Council.

Judith began her career in education and social policy. She served as an Otley town councillor, and has been an elected member since 1996. Blake served as the Leeds Council’s Deputy Leader for 5 years, during which time she changed the city’s Children’s Services’ Ofsted rating from “inadequate” to “good overall”. She has been involved in a number of national legal campaigns, worked with education authorities in Yorkshire to raise school standards in the area, and worked on crises and issues with student grades and school placements throughout her career. Blake was elected to lead Leeds City Council in May of 2015. She currently chairs the Council’s Executive Board, and has served on the boards for NHS Leeds and the West Yorkshire Police Authority as well.

Blake was born in Leeds and attended school in Headingley, before leaving Leeds to go to university. Her career took her to London and abroad, and she returned to live in Otley in 1992. She has four children.

...
Wikipedia