Career
She was the first woman President of the Methodist Conference from 1992 to 1993. She was the moderator of the Free Churches Council from 1995 to 1999. Richardson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 1996 New Year Honours.
On 3 August 1998 she was made a Life peer as Baroness Richardson of Calow, of Calow in the County of Derbyshire.
Baroness Richardson is currently sitting on the public inquiry into the death of Robert Hamill.
