Helen Jackson (politician)


Helen Margaret Jackson CBE is a British politician.

Early life

She attended the independent Berkhamsted School for Girls and read Modern History at St Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating from Oxford University in 1960, and then the C.F. Mott College of Education, gaining a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in 1972. Between 1960 and 1961, she worked as assistant librarian at the Queen's College, Oxford. From 1961 to 1962, Jackson was an assistant teacher in Stoke on Trent. She was a teacher in Lancashire between 1972 and 1974, and in Sheffield from 1974 from 1980. She was on the Labour party's National Executive Committee.

Parliamentary career

Jackson was Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hillsborough from 1992 until she stepped down at the 2005 general election.
Jackson was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 New Year Honours for her services to the Women and Pensions Network and the community in South Yorkshire.

Family

She married Keith Jackson in 1960, but the couple divorced in 1998. They have two sons and one daughter. Her brother, Christopher Price, was the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr from 1966 to 1970, and for Lewisham West from February 1974 to 1983.

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