Louise Hunt (coroner)

Louise Hunt is a British coroner who is currently HM Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, and the first female ever to take up the role, preceded by eight male coroners before her.[1]

Before becoming the coroner, the mother-of-two had left her hometown of Newcastle-under-Lyme for Birmingham at 18 and worked as a nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, graduating with a law degree in 1992. She was appointed in 2013 on the resignation of Aidan Cotter OBE who had been in the role for little more than a decade. In the process, Louise became the first female coroner in Birmingham legal history.

In 2016 she was asked by a campaign of bereaved families to resume the inquest into the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974.[2]

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Preceded by
Aidan Cotter
Birmingham and Solihull Coroner
2013-present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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