Education
Wheldon attended Sherborne School Foreign Girls and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read history, before being called to the Bar by Gray"s Inn in 1975.
civil servant Governor of the Bank of England
Wheldon attended Sherborne School Foreign Girls and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read history, before being called to the Bar by Gray"s Inn in 1975.
From July 2000 until 2006 she was the first British woman to serve as Treasury Solicitor and Head of the Government Legal Service. In 2008 she was named as one of The Times Law 100. Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1976-1983), Advisory Division Law Officers" Department (1983-1984) Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1984-1986), Assistant Legal Secretary Law Officers" Department (1986-1987) Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1987-1989), Legal Adviser Law Officers" Department (1989-1997), Legal Secretary Home Office (1997–2000), Legal Adviser Her Majesty Procurator General Office, Treasury Solicitor/Head of the Government Legal Service (2000-2006) Patron, Human Rights Lawyers" Association Dame.