The Baroness Deech | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Chair of the House of Lords Appointments Commission | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2023 | |
| Preceded by | The Lord Bew |
| Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford | |
| In office 1991–2004 | |
| Preceded by | Claire Palley |
| Succeeded by | Tim Gardam |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 25 October 2005 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ruth Lynn Deech 29 April 1943 Clapham, London, England |
| Alma mater | St Anne's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Politician |
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Ruth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE (née Fraenkel; born 29 April 1943) is a British academic,[1] lawyer, bioethicist and politician, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), from 1994 to 2002, and as the former Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford. Deech sits as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords (2005–) and chaired the Bar Standards Board (2009–2014).
- ^ "Plea for end to 'discriminatory' titles for wives of lords and knights". BBC News. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.