Lois Golding

Background

Peaches Golding was born Lois Patricia Golding on 13 December 1953, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, one of two daughters of Charlie Brady Hauser and his wife Lois Elizabeth Brown.

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Career

Since 2011 she has worked as a marketing consultant for Moon Consulting. He had served in the United States Army during World World War II and later for two terms in the North Carolina General Assembly in the early 1980s. 2. She studied biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1976.

In 1992 in Bristol, she established a marketing and communications business with clients including the Office for the Deputy Prime Minister, the Department for Education and Employment on its New Deal initiative, the Government Office for the South West, several Training and Enterprise Councils in the South West and Business Link.

She was employed by Business in the Community, both as a consultant and an employee, over a period of 17 years as Deputy Director of the Race for Opportunity campaign, Regional Director and Director of Special Projects. In 2009, Golding was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to minority ethnic people in the South West.

In 2010, Golding was appointed High Sheriff of Bristol, the first black woman to be appointed by the Sovereign to this 1,000-year-old post and the second only Black person to hold the office, the first being Nathaniel Wells, the son of a Welsh merchant and a Black slave, of Piercefield, Wales in 1818. Golding was awarded an honorary degree of Master of Business Administration by the University of the West of England in 2010.

She currently works as Principal Consultant and Head of Sustainability for Moon Consulting Limited.

Achievements

• Her father was an educator who won a settlement of $2000 from the Atlantic Greyhound Business Company in 1947 after having been arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus, 8 years before that of Rosa Parks.

Membership

She has served on a number of public bodies and private sector organisations, including as non-executive director of Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership National Health Service Trust, regional director of Business in the Community, North Bristol National Health Service Trust, GWR West, a member of the Ethnic Minority Business Forum, the Home Office representative on the Avon & Somerset Police Authority, governor of the University of the West of England, governor of the City of Bristol College, Regional Advisory Council for Independent Television West and as a member of the General Chiropractic Council. She has served terms on a number of public bodies and private sector organisations including Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership National Health Service Trust where she is Chair of the Charitable Funds Committee (2013–present), North Bristol National Health Service Trust (2004–2010), GWR West (1992–2001), a member of the Ethnic Minority Business Forum (2004–2006), the Home Office representative on the Avon & Somerset Police Authority (2000–2008), governor of the University of the West of England (1992–2000), a non-executive director of Independent Television West and its predecessors (1997–2006), a member of the Ship"s Advisory Council of the Steamship Great Britain (2010–present) and as a member of the General Chiropractic Council (1996–2004).

Connections

teacher:

Nigeria, West Africa