Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, KC, FRSA, HonFRSE was born on 12 May 1950, and is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords.
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12 Facts About Helena Kennedy
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Helena Kennedy's parents were committed Labour activists and devoutly Roman Catholic.
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Helena Kennedy's father, a printer with the Daily Record, was a trade union official.
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Helena Kennedy attended Holyrood Secondary School in Glasgow, where she was appointed Head Girl.
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Helena Kennedy was Chair of Charter 88 and is closely affiliated to the educational charity Common Purpose.
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Helena Kennedy became the first Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, serving from 1994 to 2001.
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Helena Kennedy retired in 2018 and became Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University on 26 July 2018.
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In 1986, Helena Kennedy married Iain Louis Hutchison, a surgeon, with whom she has a daughter and a son.
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Helena Kennedy regularly attends Mass and professes that her Roman Catholicism "remains very much part of who I am", even though she eschews its more traditional values.
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