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Ruth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE (née Fraenkel; born 29 April 1943, Clapham, London) is a British academic,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - Plea for end to 'discriminatory' titles for wives of lords and knights )〕 lawyer and bioethicist, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), from 1994 to 2002, and as the former Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford. Lady Deech sits as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords (2005-) and chaired the Bar Standards Board (2009-2014). ==Career== Deech studied Law at St Anne's College, Oxford, graduating with a first in 1965. She returned to the college in 1970 to be a tutorial fellow in Law, a job she retained until 1991 when she was elected principal of the college. She retired in 2004, and was succeeded by Tim Gardam. The college has since named its latest building after her; the Ruth Deech Building, the fourth to be named for a principal.〔() 〕 Deech held many other positions during her career; she served as Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford between 1985 and 1986, as a member of the University's Hebdomadal Council of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority from 1994 until 2002, and was appointed to a four-year term as a Governor〔() 〕 of the BBC in 2002, the same year that she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), in recognition of her work at the HFEA. After leaving St. Anne's, Deech was appointed the first Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education from 2004 to 2008, dealing with the resolution of student complaints at all UK universities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Guardian'' profile )〕 On 22 July 2005, it was announced by the House of Lords Appointments Commission that she would be made a life peer, sitting as a Crossbencher.〔() 〕 On 5 October 2005, she was created Baroness Deech, of Cumnor in the County of Oxfordshire, and introduced in the House of Lords on 25 October 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=House of Lords - Minute )〕 She delivered her maiden speech on 24 November 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lords Hansard text for 24 Nov 2005 (51124-06) )〕 In 1999, ''The Observer'' newspaper named her as the 107th most powerful person in Britain, and in 2001, Deech was placed at no.26 in Channel 4's "The God List", which ranked "the fifty people of faith in Britain who exercise the most power and influence over our lives".〔() 〕 In November 2007, Deech published ''IVF to Immortality: Controversy in the Era of Reproductive Technology'', with co-author Anna Smajdor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=OUP website )〕 Deech was previously the Professor of Law at Gresham College in London, where she gave a series of public lectures on family relationships and the law.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gresham College )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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