Helen Jackson

Who is Helen Jackson?

Helen Margaret Jackson CBE is a British politician. She was Labour member of Parliament for Sheffield Hillsborough from 1992 until she stepped down at the 2005 general election.

She went to the independent Berkhamsted School for Girls. She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she gained an MA degree in Modern History in 1960. She went to the C.F. Mott College of Education, gaining a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in 1972. Between 1960 and 1961, she worked as assistant librarian at the Queen's College, Oxford. From 1961 to 1962, Jackson was an assistant teacher in Stoke on Trent. She was a teacher in Lancashire between 1972 and 1974, and in Sheffield from 1974 from 1980. She was on the Labour party's National Executive Committee.

Jackson was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 New Year Honours for her services to the Women and Pensions Network and the community in South Yorkshire.