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Patricia Scotland : ウィキペディア英語版
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal

Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, PC, QC (born 19 August 1955) is a British barrister and jurist, who served in many ministerial positions within the UK Government, most notably as the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland. At the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting she was elected the 6th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations and will take office April 1, 2016. She will be the first woman to hold the post. She is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Dominica.
==Early life and career==
Scotland was born in Dominica, the tenth child of twelve born to Roman Catholic parents〔Madeleine Teahan, ("Baroness calls for support for priests" ), ''Catholic Herald'', 5 August 2011.〕 a Dominican mother and Antiguan father.〔(Alexander Downer narrowly avoids Commonwealth Secretary-General job ), ''Financial Review'', November 29, 2015〕 Her family moved to Walthamstow when she was two years old, where she attended the Walthamstow School for Girls. She then went on to Mid Essex Technical College in Chelmsford, where she pursued a London University (LLB) law degree in 1976 (in association with University College London). She was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1977, specialising in family and children's law, and also called to the Dominican bar in 1978.〔("Baroness Scotland gets Dominica’s support for top Commonwealth post" ), Caribbean 360, 30 September 2014.〕
In 1991, Scotland became the first black woman to be appointed a Queen's Counsel. She later founded 1 Gray's Inn Square barristers chambers. Early in 1997, she was elected as a Bencher of the Middle Temple. Scotland was named as a Millennium Commissioner on 17 February 1994, and was a member of the Commission for Racial Equality. She received a life peerage on a Labour Party list of working peers and was created Baroness Scotland of Asthal, of Asthal in the County of Oxfordshire on 30 October 1997.

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