Julie Mellor

Dame Julie Thérèse Mellor DBE
Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2012
Preceded by	Ann Abraham
Health Service Commissioner for England
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2012
Preceded by	Ann Abraham
Personal details
Born	29 January 1957 (1957-01-29) Bedford, England, UK
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Brasenose College, Oxford

Dame Julie Thérèse Mellor DBE was the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and the Health Service Commissioner for England (Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman) from 2012 to 2016. She resigned after criticism of her handling of a complaint about her deputy, Mick Martin, and his behaviour when chair of Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Mellor was born in 1957 and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford where she studied Experimental Psychology. Between 1979 and 1981, she was Eleanor Emerson Fellow in Industrial Relations Education at Cornell University. She was an employee relations adviser at Royal Dutch Shell (1981–1983) and an economic development officer at Islington Borough Council (1983–1984). She served as Senior Employment Policy Adviser at Greater London Council until 1986 and then at Inner London Education Authority until 1989.

In 1989, Mellor was appointed Human Resource Manager at TSB. She served as Corporate Human Resources Director of British Gas between 1992 and 1996 and then worked as a consultant on employment and consumer issues until 1999, where her clients included TSB, Motorola, Northern Foods, Xerox, the National Health Service, the Department for Education and Employment, the Home Office and the Employers' Forum on Disability.

Mellor was a commissioner at the Commission for Racial Equality between 1996 and 2003 and chaired the Equal Opportunities Commission (1999–2005) and the Fatherhood Institute (2004–2008). She was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (2005–2011), where she was part of the health sector team.

Mellor has also served as a non-executive board member of a number of bodies, including the National Consumer Council (2001–2007), Employer’s Forum on Disability (1994–2009), the Green Alliance (2007–) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (2008–2011). In 2012 she was appointed to the post of Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. In 2003, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Anglia Polytechnic University. She was made an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and of the City & Guilds of London Institute. In 2006, she was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).

External links

• ASHA Foundation
• National Portrait Gallery
• Equal Opportunities Commission (UK) website
• Employers' Forum on Disability
• CV provided to the Public Administration Select Committee
• Authorised Debrett's Biography
• Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman