Louise Hunt (coroner)

Louise Hunt is a British coroner who is currently HM Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, and the first female ever to take up the role, preceded by eight male coroners before her.[1]

Before becoming the coroner, she had left her hometown of Newcastle-under-Lyme for Birmingham at 18 and worked as a nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham from 1984, graduating with a law degree in 1992. She was appointed to the rolls as a solicitor in 1995. She was appointed as Birmingham Coroner in 2013 on the resignation of Aidan Cotter OBE who had been in the role for a little more than a decade. In the process, Louise became the first female coroner in Birmingham and only the ninth person to hold the role of Birmingham Coroner since 1840.[1]

In 2016 she was asked by a campaign of bereaved families to resume the inquest into the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974.[2]


References
  1. Lillington, Catherine (24 March 2014). "Louise Hunt: Birmingham's first female coroner". Birmingham Mail.
  2. Owen Bowcott. "Birmingham pub bombings: victims' families push to reopen investigation". the Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2017.


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