Mary Goudie, Baroness Goudie
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Goudie |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
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Assumed office 1998 |
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| Born |
Mary Teresa Brick 2 September 1946 |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | James Goudie |
| Children | 2 sons |
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| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Mary Teresa Goudie, Baroness Goudie (née Brick; born 2 September 1946) is a Labour member of House of Lords. In 1998, she was made a life peer as Baroness Goudie, of Roundwood in the London Borough of Brent. She is on the board of Vital Voices and is involved in promoting gender equity with both the G8 and G20.
Mary Teresa Brick was born to Martin and Hannah Brick, Irish emigrants to London. She grew up in London and was educated at Our Lady of the Visitation, Greenford, and Our Lady of St Anselm School, Hayes.
In 1971, Goudie became the youngest woman elected to the Brent London Borough Council. During her time on the borough council she worked to advance the Campaign for a Housing Aid Centre and a Law Centre and she helped found a housing association for the borough. She later became a freelance public affairs consultant.
Goudie was campaign manager to Lord Hattersley who became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. In 1998, Goudie was appointed a life peer in the House of Lords. She was the European director of public affairs for the World Wide Fund for Nature from 1990 to 1995.
Goudie is a senior member of the House of Lords. She has been a member of the British Irish Inter-Parliamentary Committee and was Vice Chair of the Tax Law Rewrite Committee. She also serves on the All-Party Identity Fraud Committee and since 2010 she has been a member of the Committee of Selection. She is also co-chair of number of All Party Groups. Previously, she was a member of the Communications Committee, the Procedures Committee and the European Committee on Law and the Constitution. She works in the House of Lords to promote the issues of women and children. In the last Parliament she was active in pushing through one of the government's major reform: The Equality Bill. She is vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Equality Group.
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