Harriet Greville Spicer is a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Commission

Judicial Appointments Commission

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. She was born on 24 April 1950 to James Spicer, the then owner of Spicer's Paper and Patricia Palmer. She lived in Chelsea

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 before attending Lillsden School for Girls and then Benenden School. In 1968 she spent some time working for Richard Branson

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's Student magazine. She went on to graduate from St. Annes College, Oxford University.

Spicer was Chair of the National Lottery

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 Commission and has been Chair of the Friendly Almshouse

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s, Brixton

Brixton

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. She was a founder member and executive of Virago Press

Virago Press

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. She has been a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Commission since January 2006.

Harriet is co-founder of Working Edge which provides work coaching and mentoring in London and is a Governor of the London School of Economics.