Jacqueline Margaret Ballard has been a charity senior manager, politician and journalist in the United Kingdom.
18 Facts About Jackie Ballard
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Jackie Ballard served as Liberal Democrat MP for Taunton from 1997 to 2001.
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Jackie Ballard's family moved, when she was 10, to South Wales, where she studied at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls.
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Jackie Ballard then read social psychology at the London School of Economics.
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Jackie Ballard was recruited into the then Liberal Party by Paddy Ashdown and was elected a Councillor for both the South Somerset District Council and Somerset County Council.
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Jackie Ballard stood as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in Taunton in the 1992 general election, coming second, before winning the seat in 1997.
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Jackie Ballard was the first Liberal MP for Taunton since the 1922 general election.
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Jackie Ballard came under considerable pressure due to her stance, once having to receive police protection during a constituency surgery which was lobbied by hunt supporters.
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Jackie Ballard was co-sponsor of the first bill which attempted to ban fox hunting, which is widely seen as an important factor in her defeat at the 2001 election.
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Jackie Ballard stood for the post of leader of the Liberal Democrats in 1999, but was defeated by Charles Kennedy, and came fourth out of five candidates.
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Jackie Ballard lost her seat at the 2001 general election by 235 votes, to the Conservative candidate Adrian Flook.
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Jackie Ballard wrote about her experience of the chador as a western woman in Iran.
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Jackie Ballard was appointed Chief Executive of the RNID in October 2007.
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Jackie Ballard was appointed as the Chief Executive of Womankind Worldwide in September 2012 but stepped down from the role after only ten months in June 2013.
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In December 2009, Jackie Ballard was appointed to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority which supervises MPs' expenses.
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Jackie Ballard was one of four members of IPSA who announced in December 2012 that they would not seek reappointment, citing disputes with speaker John Bercow.
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Jackie Ballard was interviewed in 2014 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.
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Jackie Ballard was married to Derek Ballard from 1975 to 1989.