Tessa Jowell

Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell (née Palmer 17 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was an English Labour Party politician.

The Right Honourable The Baroness Jowell DBE PC
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office
In office 20 January 2011 – 7 October 2011
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Liam Byrne
Succeeded by	Jon Trickett
In office 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010
Leader	Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded by	Francis Maude
Succeeded by	Liam Byrne
Shadow Minister for London
In office 11 May 2010 – 16 January 2013
Leader	Harriet Harman (Acting) Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Sadiq Khan
Shadow Minister for the Olympics
In office 11 May 2010 – 11 September 2012
Leader	Harriet Harman (acting) Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Minister for the Cabinet Office
In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Liam Byrne
Succeeded by	Francis Maude
Minister for London
In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Tony McNulty
Succeeded by	Gavin Barwell (2016)
In office 28 June 2007 – 3 October 2008
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Jim Fitzpatrick
Succeeded by	Tony McNulty
Paymaster General
In office 28 June 2007 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Dawn Primarolo
Succeeded by	Francis Maude
Minister for the Olympics
In office 6 July 2005 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Tony Blair Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Jeremy Hunt
Minister for Women
In office 5 May 2005 – 5 May 2006
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Patricia Hewitt
Succeeded by	Ruth Kelly
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
In office 8 June 2001 – 27 June 2007
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Chris Smith
Succeeded by	James Purnell
Shadow Minister for Women
In office 19 October 1995 – 26 July 1996
Leader	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Clare Short
Succeeded by	Janet Anderson
Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood Dulwich (1992–1997)
In office 9 April 1992 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by	Gerald Bowden
Succeeded by	Helen Hayes
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 October 2015 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	(1947-09-17)17 September 1947 Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom
Died	12 May 2018(2018-05-12) (aged 70) Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Roger Jowell (1970–1977) David Mills (1979–present)
Children	2 children 3 stepchildren
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen University of Edinburgh University of London

Jowell was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1992 to 2015. Her most senior position in Government was as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a post she held from 2001 to 2007.

Jowell member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was also Minister for the Olympics (2005–2010) and Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until September 2012, resigning after the London Olympic Games.

In September 2015, she was unsuccessful in seeking to be selected as the Labour Party's official candidate in the 2016 election for Mayor of London, coming second to Sadiq Khan in the contest of six candidates.

In September 2017, Jowell announced she had been diagnosed with brain cancer. Jowell died on 12 May 2018 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by the disease at the age of 70.