Christine Humphreys

Christine Humphreys, Baroness Humphreys of Llanrwst is a Welsh Liberal Democrats peer and leader of the party's group in the House of Lords.

The Right Honourable The Baroness Humphreys of Llanrwst
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Wales
In office 20 June 2017 – 21 August 2019
Leader	Vince Cable Jo Swinson
Preceded by	Mark Williams
Succeeded by	Jane Dodds & Kirsty Williams
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 September 2013 Life Peerage
Member of the Welsh Assembly for North Wales
In office 6 May 1999 – 22 March 2001
Preceded by	New Assembly
Succeeded by	Eleanor Burnham
Personal details
Political party	Liberal Democrats

Humphreys is also a former President of the Welsh Liberal Democrats and was a Member of the Welsh Assembly for the North Wales regional constituency from 1999 to 2001. She has also been the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Wales since 2015.

Before winning election to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 she was a teacher and Head of Vocational Education in a Welsh Medium School in her home county of Conwy. She resigned on 22 March 2001 due to ill health and was succeeded by fellow Liberal Democrat Eleanor Burnham as Assembly Member for North Wales.

In November 2007 she was elected President of the party, defeating Bob Barton and John Last. She went on to serve two terms as party president, including one term as honorary president of the Welsh Young Liberals.

In August 2013 she was appointed a working peer,[1] but she has said that she favours Lords Reform.[2] She was created a life peer on 18 September 2013 taking the title Baroness Humphreys. of Llanrwst in the County of Conwy, and made a point of taking the oath in her native Welsh instead of the traditional English.[3]