Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

The Right Honourable The Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws LT KC FRSA HonFRSE
Official portrait, 2019
Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 July 2018
Preceded by	Robert Winston, Baron Winston
Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford
In office September 2011 – 2018
Preceded by	Diana Walford
Succeeded by	Helen Mountfield
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 October 1997 Life peerage
Personal details
Born	Helena Ann Kennedy (1950-05-12) 12 May 1950 (age 74) Glasgow, Scotland
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Iain Louis Hutchison ​ ​ (m. 1986)​
Domestic partner	Iain Mitchell (1978–1984)
Children	3
Occupation	Barrister, television presenter
Website	helenakennedy.co.uk

Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, LT, KC, FRSA, HonFRSE (born 12 May 1950), is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, from 2011 to 2018. A Bencher of Gray's Inn, an Honorary Writer to the Signet and the recipient of 42 Honorary Degrees from many universities including those of Glasgow and Edinburgh in recognition of work on women and the law and on widening participation in higher education. She is President of Justice, the law reform think tank, and is also director of the International Bar Association's Institute of Human Rights.