Tessa Jowell
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Jowell DBE PC |
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| Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office | |
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In office 20 January 2011 – 7 October 2011 |
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| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Liam Byrne |
| Succeeded by | Jon Trickett |
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In office 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010 |
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| Leader | Harriet Harman (acting) |
| Preceded by | Francis Maude |
| Succeeded by | Liam Byrne |
| Shadow Minister for London | |
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In office 11 May 2010 – 16 January 2013 |
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| Leader |
Harriet Harman (acting) Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Sadiq Khan |
| Shadow Minister for the Olympics | |
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In office 11 May 2010 – 11 September 2012 |
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| Leader |
Harriet Harman (acting) Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Minister for the Cabinet Office | |
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In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Liam Byrne |
| Succeeded by | Francis Maude |
| Minister for London | |
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In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Tony McNulty |
| Succeeded by | Gavin Barwell (2016) |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 3 October 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Jim Fitzpatrick |
| Succeeded by | Tony McNulty |
| Paymaster General | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Dawn Primarolo |
| Succeeded by | Francis Maude |
| Minister for the Olympics | |
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In office 6 July 2005 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister |
Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Jeremy Hunt |
| Minister for Women | |
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In office 5 May 2005 – 5 May 2006 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Patricia Hewitt |
| Succeeded by | Ruth Kelly |
| Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | |
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In office 8 June 2001 – 27 June 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Chris Smith |
| Succeeded by | James Purnell |
| Shadow Minister for Women | |
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In office 19 October 1995 – 26 July 1996 |
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| Leader | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Clare Short |
| Succeeded by | Janet Anderson |
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Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood Dulwich (1992–1997) |
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In office 9 April 1992 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Gerald Bowden |
| Succeeded by | Helen Hayes |
| Personal details | |
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17 September 1947 London, England, UK |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) |
Roger Jowell (1970–1977) David Mills (1979–present) |
| Children | 2 children 3 stepchildren |
| Alma mater |
University of Aberdeen University of Edinburgh University of London |
Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, DBE, PC (née Palmer; born 17 September 1947) is an English Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1992 to 2015. She held a number of major government ministerial positions, as well as opposition appointments, during this period.
Her most senior position in Government was as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a post she held from 2001 to 2007. A member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was also Minister for the Olympics (2005–2010) and Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until September 2012, resigning after the London Olympic Games.
A Privy Counsellor since 1998, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2012.
She stood down from the House of Commons at the 2015 general election. She was nominated for life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours and was raised to the peerage as Baroness Jowell, of Brixton in the London Borough of Lambeth, on 27 October 2015.
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