Judith Hart; Former Cabinet Minister and Labor Party Leader
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Judith Hart, 67, a former Cabinet minister and chairwoman of Britain’s Labor Party. Elected to Parliament in 1959, she was appointed Paymaster-General in Harold Wilson’s Cabinet in 1968-69, then served three terms as minister for overseas development--1969-70, 1974-75 and 1977-79. She was chairwoman of the Labor Party in 1981-82. She was made a dame, the female equivalent of a knight, in 1979. She moved from the House of Commons to the House of Lords in 1988 when she was made a life peer, taking the title Baroness Hart of South Lanark. In London on Sunday after lengthy treatment for cancer.
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