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Nigel Dodds

The Right Honourable
Nigel Dodds
OBE MP
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Member of Parliament
for Belfast North
Assumed office
7 June 2001
Preceded by Cecil Walker
Majority 5,326 (13.1%)
Deputy Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and Party Leader in House of Commons
Assumed office
2008
Preceded by Peter Robinson
Minister of Finance and Personnel
In office
June 2008 – June 2009
Preceded by Peter Robinson
Succeeded by Sammy Wilson
Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment
In office
8 May 2007 – June 2008
Preceded by Reg Empey
Succeeded by Arlene Foster
Minister for Social Development
In office
2001 – October 2002
Preceded by Maurice Morrow
Succeeded by Margaret Ritchie
Minister for Social Development
In office
December 1999 – 2001
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by Maurice Morrow
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Belfast North
In office
25 June 1998 – 10 September 2010
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by William Humphrey
Personal details
Born (1958-08-20) 20 August 1958 (age 58)
Derry, Northern Ireland
Nationality British
Political party Democratic Unionist Party
Spouse(s) Diane Dodds
Children 2
Alma mater St John's College, Cambridge, Queen's University Belfast
Occupation Politician
Profession Barrister
Religion Free Presbyterian
Website Official Site

Nigel Alexander Dodds, OBE, MP (born 20 August 1958) is a Northern Irish barrister and unionist politician. He is Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast North, and deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). He has been Lord Mayor of Belfast twice, and from 1993 has been General Secretary of the DUP.

Since June 2008 he has also been Deputy Leader of the DUP. Dodds became North Belfast's MP in the 2001 UK general elections. He has served in the past as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and as Minister of Finance in the Northern Ireland Executive.

Nigel Dodds was born in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and studied Law at St John's College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a first-class degree, and where he won the university scholarship, McMahan studentship and Winfield Prize for Law. Upon graduation, he returned to Northern Ireland and, after studying at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queen's University, Belfast (IPLS), was called to the Northern Irish bar. After working as a barrister, he worked at the Secretariat of the European Parliament from 1984-96.


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