Tessa Jowell information

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Jowell
DBE PC
The Right Honourable The Baroness Jowell DBE PC
	Official portrait, 2007
Minister for the Cabinet Office
	In office; 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Liam Byrne
Succeeded by	Francis Maude
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
	In office; 8 June 2001 – 27 June 2007
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Chris Smith
Succeeded by	James Purnell
Leader
Shadow portfolios
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office
	In office; 20 January 2011 – 7 October 2011
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Liam Byrne
Succeeded by	Jon Trickett
	In office; 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010
Leader	Harriet Harman (acting)
Preceded by	Francis Maude
Succeeded by	Liam Byrne
Shadow Minister for London
	In office; 11 May 2010 – 16 January 2013
Leader	Harriet Harman (acting); Ed Miliband;
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Sadiq Khan
Shadow Minister for the Olympics
	In office; 11 May 2010 – 11 September 2012
Leader	Harriet Harman (acting); Ed Miliband;
Preceded by	Jeremy Hunt
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Shadow Minister for Women
	In office; 19 October 1995 – 26 July 1996
Leader	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Clare Short
Succeeded by	Janet Anderson
Prime Minister
Junior ministerial offices
Minister for London
	In office; 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Tony McNulty
Succeeded by	Gavin Barwell (2016)
	In office; 28 June 2007 – 3 October 2008
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Jim Fitzpatrick
Succeeded by	Tony McNulty
Paymaster General
	In office; 28 June 2007 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Dawn Primarolo
Succeeded by	Francis Maude
Minister for the Olympics
	In office; 6 July 2005 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Tony Blair; Gordon Brown;
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Jeremy Hunt
Minister for Women
	In office; 5 May 2005 – 5 May 2006
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Patricia Hewitt
Succeeded by	Ruth Kelly
Preceded by
Parliamentary offices
Members of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage; 27 October 2015 – 12 May 2018
Member of Parliament; for Dulwich and West Norwood Dulwich (1992–1997)
	In office; 9 April 1992 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by	Gerald Bowden
Succeeded by	Helen Hayes
Personal details
Born	Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Palmer; 18 September 1947; Marylebone, London, England
Died	12 May 2018 (aged 70); Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England
Political party	Labour
Spouses	Roger Jowell (m. 1970; div. 1977); David Mills (m. 1979);
Children	2, including Jess Mills
Relatives	Ella Woodward (daughter-in-law)
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen; University of Edinburgh; University of London;
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Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, DBE, PC (née Palmer; 18 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood, previously Dulwich, from 1992 to 2015.

Jowell held a number of major government ministerial positions, as well as opposition appointments, during this period. She served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2001 to 2007 and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2009 to 2010. A member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was also Minister for the Olympics (2005–10) and Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until September 2012, resigning after the London Olympic Games.

A Privy Councillor from 1998,^[1] she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2012.^[2] She stood down from the House of Commons at the 2015 general election.

She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours and was raised to the peerage as Baroness Jowell, of Brixton in the London Borough of Lambeth, on 27 October 2015. In September 2015, she was unsuccessful in seeking to be selected as the Labour Party's official candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election, coming second to Sadiq Khan in the contest of six candidates.

^ "Privy Councillors". Privy Council Office. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
^ "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 6.

[Privy_Council-1] "Privy Councillors". Privy Council Office. Retrieved 1 June 2016.

[Gazette_damehood-2] "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 6.

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