Lib Dem as Chairman of County Council

11.00.00am BST (GMT +0100) Tue 4th Apr 2006

Lesley Legge

Liberal Democrat Councillor for Abingdon East, Lesley Legge, was elected Chairman of the County Council on Tuesday 4th April.

Lesley grew up in Lichfield, Staffordshire. She has a degree in mathematics and applied physics from the University of Durham.

She worked at a pioneering computer company designing air traffic control simulation programmes and as a computer manager at the Royal National Institute for the Blind co-ordinating a new way of translating books into braille before having her children.

She gained a Post Graduate Certificate in Education at London University in 1992 and taught maths for eight years at a south Oxfordshire secondary school.

She has lived in Abingdon since 1979 and has been a town councillor since 1995. She was Mayor of Abingdon in the millennium year. She is married and her three children were all educated at local county schools in Abingdon.