Janet Gaymer

Who is Janet Gaymer?

Dame Janet Marion Gaymer, DBE, QC served from January 2006 to December 2010 as a Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments, regulating ministerial appointments to designated public bodies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

She was previously senior partner of Simmons & Simmons, an international law firm, as well as Chair of the Employment Tribunal System Taskforce and a member of the Employment Tribunals Service Steering Board.

She was a member of the Council of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service and chaired of its Audit Committee between 1995 and 2001. She was the founder chairman of the UK Employment Lawyers' Association, and now Honorary Chairman of the European Employment Lawyers' Association.