Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in the House of Lords
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 June 2021
Leader
Jeffrey Donaldson Gavin Robinson (interim)
Preceded by
Office established
Deputy Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
In office 31 May 2008 – 28 May 2021
Leader
Peter Robinson
Arlene Foster
Preceded by
Peter Robinson
Succeeded by
Paula Bradley
Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in the House of Commons
In office 6 May 2010 – 13 December 2019
Leader
Peter Robinson
Arlene Foster
Preceded by
Peter Robinson
Succeeded by
Jeffrey Donaldson
Ministerial offices
Minister of Finance and Personnel
In office 5 June 2008 – 1 July 2009
First Minister
Peter Robinson
Preceded by
Peter Robinson
Succeeded by
Sammy Wilson
Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment
In office 8 May 2007 – 5 June 2008
First Minister
Ian Paisley
Peter Robinson
Preceded by
Reg Empey
Succeeded by
Arlene Foster
Minister for Social Development
In office 24 October 2001 – 14 October 2002
First Minister
Reg Empey (acting)
David Trimble
Preceded by
Maurice Morrow
Succeeded by
Margaret Ritchie
In office 21 November 1999 – 27 July 2000
First Minister
David Trimble
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Maurice Morrow
Parliamentary offices
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 19 October 2020
Member of Parliament for Belfast North
In office 7 June 2001 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by
Cecil Walker
Succeeded by
John Finucane
Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast North
In office 25 June 1998 – 10 September 2010
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
William Humphrey
Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Belfast North
In office 30 May 1996 – 25 April 1998
Local government offices
45th and 48th Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office 1 June 1991 – 1 June 1992
Preceded by
Fred Cobain
Succeeded by
Herbert Ditty
In office 1 June 1988 – 1 June 1989
Preceded by
J.J. Dixon Gilmore
Succeeded by
Reg Empey
Member of Belfast City Council
In office 15 May 1985 – 5 May 2011
Preceded by
District created
Succeeded by
Lydia Patterson
Constituency
Castle
Personal details
Born
Nigel Alexander Dodds
(1958-08-20) 20 August 1958 (age 65) Derry, Northern Ireland
Nationality
British
Political party
Democratic Unionist Party
Spouse
Diane Dodds
Children
3
Alma mater
St John's College, Cambridge Queen's University of Belfast
Profession
Politician
Website
Official website
Nigel Alexander Dodds, Baron Dodds of Duncairn, OBE, PC (born 20 August 1958), is a Northern Irish unionist politician and barrister serving as Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in the House of Lords since 2021. He previously served as deputy leader of the DUP from 2008 to 2021 and leader of the DUP in the House of Commons from 2010 to 2019.
Born in Derry and raised in County Fermanagh, Dodds originally practised as a barrister. He has been Lord Mayor of Belfast twice, and served as General Secretary of the DUP from 1993 to 2008. Dodds served as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 to 2010. He served in three ministerial portfolios in the Northern Ireland Executive, lastly as Minister of Finance and Personnel from 2008 to 2009, a position he assumed shortly after he became Deputy Leader.
He became Member of Parliament for the Belfast North constituency at the 2001 UK general election and served in that role until he was defeated by John Finucane of Sinn Féin in 2019. In July 2020, he was nominated for a peerage in the House of Lords and announced in September 2020 that he would take the title Lord Dodds of Duncairn.
Nigel Alexander Dodds, Baron Dodds of Duncairn, OBE, PC (born 20 August 1958), is a Northern Irish unionist politician and barrister serving as Leader...
Nigel B. Dodd (1965-2022) was a British sociologist. Dodd earned a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1991, and began his teaching career as...
party leader and Peter Robinson was ratified as the new leader, with NigelDodds as his deputy. On 11 June 2008, the party supported the government's...
to 2009 as a Junior Minister for First Minister Peter Robinson. After NigelDodds lost his seat at the 2019 general election, Donaldson became the DUP...
was NigelDodds of the Democratic Unionist Party. Finucane secured Sinn Féin's highest vote share ever in the constituency but failed to unseat Dodds. Former...
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future husband and future DUP MP for North Belfast, NigelDodds.[citation needed] In 2003, Dodds was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly to represent...
for the causeway would go ahead with the support of deputy DUP leader NigelDodds. A major concession for Northern Ireland was the reduction to zero of...
Preceded by NigelDodds Succeeded by Fred Cobain 9th Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast In office 1 June 1988 – 1 June 1989 Lord Mayor NigelDodds Preceded by...
Kilkeel. "He captured me emotionally for the DUP and Peter Robinson's and NigelDodds' forensic analysis of the failing of the Agreement captured me intellectually"...
the collapse of the Assembly. The party's leader in the Commons was NigelDodds, the MP for Belfast North. Gerry Adams sat as a TD in Dáil Éireann (lower...
political career in 2005.[citation needed] However, he lost his own seat to NigelDodds of the DUP in the 2001 general election, following a disastrous televised...
the influence that this would bring them. The party's deputy leader, NigelDodds, said the party could work with the Conservatives or Labour, but that...
Ulster Hall to investigate the event were denied entry, DUP press officer NigelDodds instead appeared and handed out leaflets stating the goals of the new...
24 October 2001 First Minister David Trimble Preceded by NigelDodds Succeeded by NigelDodds Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Incumbent Assumed...
minister) but those DUP members serving as ministers (Peter Robinson and NigelDodds) refused to attend meetings of the Executive Committee (cabinet) in protest...
Cameron, David Miliband, Boris Johnson, John Thurso, George Osborne, NigelDodds, Chris Grayling, Andy Burnham, Adam Price, Alistair Carmichael, Angus...
and was officially launched by the then Finance Minister, NigelDodds on 7 May 2009. "Dodds hails new website as the future of Government services". Northern...
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