Brenda Dean

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde
PC FRSA
Dean in the House of Lords (December 2017)
Personal details
Born(1943-04-29)29 April 1943
Salford, England
Died13 March 2018(2018-03-13) (aged 74)
Nottingham, England
Political partyLabour
SpouseKeith McDowall CBE
OccupationPeer
Trade unionist

Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, PC, FRSA (29 April 1943 – 13 March 2018) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. As general secretary of SOGAT from 1985 until 1991, she was "the first woman elected to head a major industrial trade union."

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