Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Clark of Calton PC QC |
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| Senator of the College of Justice | |
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Assumed office 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Lady Cosgrove |
| Advocate General for Scotland | |
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In office 1999–2006 |
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| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Lord Davidson of Glen Clova |
| Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Pentlands |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Malcolm Rifkind |
| Succeeded by | constituency abolished |
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Lynda Margaret Clark 26 February 1949 |
| Political party | Labour |
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Queens College, St Andrews, University of Edinburgh |
Lynda Margaret Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton PC QC (born 26 February 1949) is a Scottish judge. She was formerly the Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Pentlands. She was Advocate General for Scotland from the creation of that position in 1999 until 2006, whereupon she became a Judge of the Court of Session in Scotland.
Clark studied law at Queens College, St Andrews during its transition to independence as the University of Dundee School of Law, graduating in 1970 with a LLB (Hons) from St Andrews, and subsequently gained a PhD in criminology and penology from the University of Edinburgh in 1975. She was a lecturer in Jurisprudence from 1973 at the University of Dundee until she was called to the Scottish Bar in 1977. She took silk in 1989, and was subsequently called to the English Bar in 1990 as a member of the Inner Temple.
Clark first stood for Parliament at the 1992 general election, when she unsuccessfully contested the Fife North East constituency held by the Liberal Democrat Menzies Campbell. At the 1997 general election she was elected to the House of Commons for the seat of Edinburgh Pentlands, displacing the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Malcolm Rifkind.
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