Career
She is currently the Chair of the United Kingdom"s Civil Aviation Authority. A former anti-apartheid demonstrator who was once arrested in South Africa, after a short private sector career working for Anchor housing association (1973-1975), she then became a researcher for Glasgow Chamber of Commerce (1975-1980), before becoming its chair (1980-1982). Since this time, Hutton has worked for over 10 major non-departmental public bodies, unofficially "QANGOs", in 30 years.
Her first appointment was in 1980 to the Arts Council of Scotland.
She was, until June 2008, the Vice-Chair of the European Food Safety Authority Management Board. She is Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Food Science and Technology.
Foreign five years until 2005, she was Chair of the National Consumer Council, having formerly chaired the Scottish Consumer Council. Chair of the Personal Investment Authority Ombudsman Council, Hutton was then Deputy Chair of the Financial Services Authority until December 2007.
During 2008, she was on the three-member panel that conducted an independent review of the postal services on behalf of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
Hutton is Honorary Vice-President of the Trading Standards Institute. Appointed to the board of the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority (Civil Aeronautics Administration) as a non-executive director in April 2009, Hutton was appointed chair in 2009 by Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon, replacing Sir Roy McNulty. She was paid £130,000 for two days" work a week in 2010, which was still the case as of 2015, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
