Premise: Usha Kumari Prashar, Baroness Prashar, (born 29 June 1948) is a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chairman of a variety of public and private sector organisations. She became the first chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006.
Hypothesis: Prashar has been serving as a crossbench member of the House of Lords and chair or director of public and private sector organizations since the 1970s.