Career
Gardiner has worked at the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel since 1991, and as a director-general-graded Parliamentary Counsel from 2003 until her promotion in 2015, where she succeeded Richard Heaton. As of September 2015, as a Director-General Gardiner was paid a salary of between £175,000 and £179,999, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time. Gardiner was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (Central Bank) in the Queen"s Birthday Honours of 2013.
