Council constituencies and current members

We encourage you to contact your Council members with any issues you would like raised at Council meetings.

Geographical constituency seats

Council members in geographical constituency seats:

• Birmingham: Mary Kaye
• Bristol: Salma Maqsood 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Michael Frape
• Central and South Lancashire: Asma Ruksar
• Central London: Matt Aleksic, Shainul Kassam, Sangita Manek, Paul Sharma and Laura Uberoi
• Cheshire: Mark Brown
• Cross Border Wales: Scott Bowen
• Cumbria and Lancaster: Claire Logan
• Derbyshire, East Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire: Shama Gupta
• Devon and Somerset: Richard Adams
• Dorset: Peter Watson-Lee
• Essex: Karen Dovaston
• Gloucestershire and Wiltshire: Kathryn King
• Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire: Josephine Duchenne
• Kent: Richard Atkinson
• Lincolnshire: vacancy
• Liverpool: Jeremy Myers
• Leeds: Nick Emmerson
• Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland: Steven Mather
• Manchester, Salford, Stockport and District: Jeff Lewis and Steve Kuncewicz
• Mid and West Wales: Mark Davies
• Norfolk: David Richards
• North East London: Rosemin Keshvani
• North Wales: Mark Evans
• North West London: Nehal Vasani
• North East: Allan Devine and Guy Goodings
• Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: Matthew Gauntlett
• Plymouth and Cornwall: Steve Hudson
• Shropshire and Herefordshire: Danny Smith
• South: Adrienne Edgerley-Harris
• South London: Akilah McEwen
• South Wales: Clive Thomas
• Suffolk: Donna Taylor
• Surrey: Sushila Abraham
• Sussex: Andrew Bishop
• Warwickshire and Worcester: Elizabeth Miles
• Wolverhampton and Staffordshire: Simon Rollason
• Yorkshire and Humberside: Amy Clowrey, Phillip Horsfield and Mark Newby

Non-geographical seats

A number of our non-geographical seats, referred to as the work practice and characteristic seats, represent particular organisations of solicitors.

If the executive of the organisation chooses, these seats may be filled by nomination of the executive rather than by election. Other seats are filled by election.

Work practice seats

Council members in work practice seats:

• Business and Commercial: Mark Stephen Anderson
• Central Government: Eleri Wones
• Childcare: Denise Lester
• Civil Litigation (non-personal injury): Charlotte Hill
• Commercial Property: Russell Hewitson
• Criminal Defence: Gareth Jones
• Criminal Prosecution Services: Stephen Head
• Employment: Philip Henson
• EU and International: Jonathan Goldsmith
• Family: Hannah McCrindle
• Housing: Daniel Fitzpatrick
• Immigration: Jessica Yu
• In-house Corporate Counsel: Christoph Sicking, Graham Jones, Matthew Gingell and Paul Cummins
• In-house Voluntary and Charities: Ngaryan Li
• Leadership and Management: Sarah Sargent
• Legal Aid: Nicola Jones-King
• Local Government: vacancy
• Major Corporate: Clare Wilson, David Patient, Fiona Edmond and Peter Young
• Personal Injury – Claimant: Brett Dixon
• Personal Injury – Defendant: Nichola Evans
• Private Client: Melinda Giles
• Residential Property: Peter Rodd
• Small Firms: Nino Cuffaro
• Sole Practitioners: Lubna Shuja and Clive Sutton

Characteristic seats

Council members in characteristic seats:

• 6 to 12 years' PQE: Louise Duckett and Uche Osemeke
• Black Solicitors' Network: Cordella Bart-Stewart
• Ethnic Minorities: Kyle Blackburn, Mohammad Gaffar, Muntech Kaur and Shannett Thompson
• Junior Lawyers (0 to 6 years' PQE): Reanne Anthony, Lauren Basham, Sophia Hanif, Marque Janneh, Bethany Walker and Martin Whitehorn
• LGBT+: Jonathan Wheeler
• Solicitors with Disabilities: Alexandra Wilson
• Women Lawyers: Dana Denis-Smith, Danielle Cohen, Hannah Beko, Helen Chen and Karen Bexley

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