Theresa Stewart was Lord Mayor of Birmingham from May 2000 to May 2001, being only the sixth woman to hold that position.
16 Facts About Theresa Stewart
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Theresa Stewart remained a councillor, for Billesley ward, until 2002.
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Theresa Stewart saw her role as a Labour Councillor as doing for poor people, what lawyers did for rich people.
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Theresa Stewart was a member of the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board in the late 1960s.
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Theresa Stewart exposed failings in the hospital system including a ward kept locked for the use of the family and friends of consultants.
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Theresa Stewart was a founder of BPAS, campaigned for CND, for women's right to choose, for the family allowance to be paid to the mother as well as hosting striking miners and steelworkers in her home.
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Theresa Stewart was member and chair of Social Services in Birmingham in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Theresa Stewart moved the council from spending on infrastructure and convention centres to a focus on social services and education.
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Theresa Stewart hosted G8 in 1998, welcoming Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin to the city.
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Theresa Stewart won a scholarship to study mathematics at Somerville College, Oxford University.
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Theresa Stewart met John Stewart, who was studying PPE at Balliol College.
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Theresa Stewart was active in the Labour Party throughout these years.
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Theresa Stewart's husband had been appointed as a senior lecturer a INLOGOV at the University of Birmingham,.
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Theresa Stewart was later made a professor and then Director of INLOGOV.
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Theresa Stewart died on 11 November 2020, at the age of 90, following a long illness.
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Theresa Stewart was survived by her husband, their four children, ten grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.