acting Welsh Deputy First Minister
Which position did Jenny Randerson, Baroness Randerson hold in Mar 2002?
Jenny Randerson , Baroness Randerson Jennifer Elizabeth Randerson , Baroness Randerson ( born 26 May 1948 ) is a Welsh Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords . She is former junior minister in the Wales Office serving in the Cameron–Clegg coalition . Prior to her peerage she was an Assembly Member for Cardiff Central from 1999 to 2011 when she served in the Welsh Labour-Lib Dem administration of the 2000–2003 Welsh Assembly Government . She is a former Cardiff councillor for Cyncoed . In 2019 she was appointed Chancellor of Cardiff University . Background . Randerson was educated at Bedford College , University of London , BSc Physiology and Biochemistry , 1983 , now part of Royal Holloway , University of London . She was a Cardiff councillor 1983–2000 and was a lecturer at Cardiff Tertiary College . She led the official opposition on the Council in Cardiff for four years . She introduced Creative Future , a culture strategy for Wales and Iaith Pawb , a strategy for the promulgation of the Welsh language . National Assembly for Wales . Randerson was elected as Assembly Member for Cardiff Central at the 1999 Assembly Elections beating the Labour candidate Mark Drakeford . She served as Minister for Culture , Sport and the Welsh Language in the Liberal Democrat/Labour Partnership Government from 2000 to 2003 . She was acting Welsh Deputy First Minister from 6 July 2001 to 13 June 2002 . She was Health and Social Services ; Equal Opportunities and Finance Spokeswoman for the Welsh Liberal Democrats during the Second Assembly . She chaired Assembly Business and Standing Orders Committees during the Second Assembly . Randerson stood for the leadership of the Welsh Liberal Democrats in 2008 but was defeated by Kirsty Williams who gained 60% to Jennys 40% of the all member ballot . In the third Assembly Jenny Randerson was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Education , Transport and the Economy . She did not seek re-election at the 2011 Assembly elections , with Nigel Howells – her Liberal Democrat successor , being narrowly defeated by Jenny Rathbone . House of Lords . On 27 January 2011 , she was created a life peer as Baroness Randerson , of Roath Park in the City of Cardiff and was introduced in the House of Lords on 31 January 2011 , and sits on the Liberal Democrat benches . On 4 September 2012 , she was appointed a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office . Baroness Randerson is the first female Welsh Liberal Democrat to hold ministerial office at Westminster and the first Welsh Liberal to hold a ministerial post since Gwilym Lloyd-George in 1945 . Although English by birth and upbringing , she is also the first female non Labour Welsh politician to hold a government post at Westminster . External links . - Jenny Randerson AM official biography at the Welsh Assembly website - Jenny Randerson AM profile at the site of Welsh Liberal Democrats