Dame
Elizabeth Anne Finlay Gardiner
DCB KC (Hon)
First Parliamentary Counsel
Assumed office
24 November 2015
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Elizabeth Truss
Rishi Sunak
Preceded byRichard Heaton
Personal details
Born (1966-03-19) 19 March 1966
NationalityBritish

Dame Elizabeth Anne Finlay Gardiner DCB KC (Hon) (born 19 March 1966) is a British solicitor and senior civil servant who has served as the First Parliamentary Counsel since November 2015.[1][2]

After education at the University of Edinburgh[1] and working as a solicitor in Scotland[3] Gardiner has worked at the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel since 1991, and as a director-general-graded Parliamentary Counsel from 2003 until her promotion in 2015,[1] where she succeeded Richard Heaton.[2][4] As of September 2015, as a Director-General Gardiner was paid a salary of between £175,000 and £179,999, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.[5]

Gardiner was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2013 Birthday Honours[6] and Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (DCB) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to government and the legislative process.[7]

In January 2019, Gardiner became the Civil Service Champion for the Civil Service Retirement Fellowship. In 2020 she was appointed as an honorary Queen's Counsel.[8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "GARDINER, Elizabeth Anne Finlay". Who's Who 2015. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 "First Parliamentary Counsel appointed: Elizabeth Gardiner - Press releases - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "One minute with ... Elizabeth Gardiner". Civil Service Weekly News. 10 June 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "Cabinet Office on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "Senior officials 'high earners' salaries as at 30 September 2015 - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2013. pp. 1–36.
  7. ↑ "No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B3.
  8. ↑ "Elizabeth Gardiner to be appointed Honorary Queen's Counsel". www.gov.uk. 17 January 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  9. ↑ @ParliCounsel_UK (16 March 2020). "Congratulations to Elizabeth Gardiner, First Parliamentary Counsel, who was appointed as Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) today @1ParliCounsel #QCceremony" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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