Brenda Hale (Northern Ireland politician)
Brenda Hale is a Democratic Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland. She sat in the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lagan Valley from 2011 until her narrow defeat at the 2017 Assembly election.
Hale's husband served with the British Army and was killed in Afghanistan in 2009. Hale then started to speak to the Ministry of Defence on behalf of other war widows. As of August 2015, she is a Political Member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board.
Her book, I Married A Soldier, was published in 2017. It details Hale’s family life with her husband and daughters leading to her entry into Northern Irish politics.
As a result of her work Mrs Hale was listed on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list and is to receive an OBE for political service.
