Council constituencies and current members
We encourage you to contact your Council members with any issues you would like raised at Council meetings.
Geographical constituency seats
Council members in geographical constituency seats:
- Birmingham: Mary Kaye
- Bristol: Salma Maqsood
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Michael Frape
- Central and South Lancashire: Asma Ruksar
- Central London: Paul Sharma, Laura Uberoi and Shainul Kassam
- Cheshire: Mark Brown
- Cross Border Wales: Scott Bowen
- Cumbria and Lancaster: Claire Logan
- Derbyshire, East Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire: Shama Gupta
- Devon and Somerset: Richard Adams
- Dorset: Peter Watson-Lee
- Essex: Tony Fisher
- Gloucestershire and Wiltshire: Kathryn King
- Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire: Josephine Duchenne
- Holborn*:
- Kent: Richard Atkinson
- Lincolnshire: vacancy
- Leeds: Nick Emmerson
- Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland: Steven Mather
- Manchester, Salford, Stockport and District: Jeff Lewis and Steve Kuncewicz
- Merseyside and District: Nina Ferris
- Mid and West Wales: Carolyn Kirby
- Norfolk: David Richards
- North East London: Rosemin Keshvani
- North Wales: Mark Evans
- North West London: Nehal Vasani
- North East: Allan Devine and Guy Goodings
- Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: Matthew Gauntlett
- Plymouth and Cornwall: Steve Hudson
- The City of London: Christopher Vigrass
- The City of Westminster: Nicola Rubbert
- Shropshire and Herefordshire: Danny Smith
- South: Adrienne Edgerley-Harris
- South London: Akilah McEwen
- South Wales: Clive Thomas
- Suffolk: Donna Taylor
- Surrey: Sushila Abraham
- Sussex: Andrew Bishop
- Warwickshire and Worcester: vacancy
- West London: Saima Hirji
- Wolverhampton and Staffordshire: Simon Rollason
- Yorkshire and Humberside: David Barraclough, Mark Newby and Amy Clowrey
*The Holborn seat has been disestablished and will be incorporated into the Central London constituency at the 2024 round of elections.
Non-geographical seats
A number of our non-geographical seats, referred to as the work practice and characteristic seats, represent particular organisations of solicitors.
If the executive of the organisation chooses, these seats may be filled by nomination of the executive rather than by election. Other seats are filled by election.
Work practice seats
Council members in work practice seats:
- Business and Commercial: Mark Stephen Anderson
- Central Government: Eleri Wones
- Childcare: Denise Lester
- Civil Litigation (non-personal injury): Charlotte Hill
- Commercial Property: Russell Hewitson
- Criminal Defence: Ben Brown
- Criminal Prosecution Services: Stephen Head
- Employment: Philip Henson
- EU and International: Jonathan Goldsmith
- Family: Hannah McCrindle
- Housing: Daniel Fitzpatrick
- Immigration: Jessica Yu
- In-house Corporate Counsel: Christoph Sicking, Graham Jones, Matthew Gingell and Paul Cummins
- In-house Voluntary and Charities: Ngaryan Li
- Leadership and Management: Sarah Sargent
- Legal Aid: Nicola Jones-King
- Local Government: Suki Binjal
- Major Corporate: Clare Wilson, David Patient, Fiona Edmond and Peter Young
- Personal Injury – Claimant: Brett Dixon
- Personal Injury – Defendant: Nichola Evans
- Private Client: Melinda Giles
- Residential Property: Peter Rodd
- Small Firms: Nino Cuffaro
- Sole Practitioners: Lubna Shuja and Clive Sutton
Characteristic seats
Council members in characteristic seats:
- 6 to 12 years' PQE: Johnny Shearman and Louise Duckett
- Black Solicitors' Network: Cordella Bart-Stewart
- Ethnic Minorities: Kyle Blackburn, Mohammad Gaffar, Muntech Kaur and Shannett Thompson
- Junior Lawyers (0 to 6 years' PQE): Baljinder Singh Atwal, Jonathan Andrews, Lizzy Lim and Daria Dybov
- LGBT+: Jonathan Wheeler
- Solicitors with Disabilities: Alexandra Wilson
- Women Lawyers: Dana Denis-Smith, Danielle Cohen, Hannah Beko, Helen Chen and Karen Bexley
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