Alice Perkins
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Alice Perkins graduated from St Anne's College, Oxford and joined the Civil Service Fast Track Stream in 1971. The early years of her career were spent in what was then known as the Department of Health and Social Security. In 1993 she moved to the Treasury as Director on public spending until 1998 when she returned to the Department of Health as Director General for Corporate Management responsible for administration. In 2001 Perkins moved to the Cabinet Office to work on the quango "civil service reform and people issues" for a year, followed by a post leading a "Corporate Development Group" (civil service reform). Alice Perkins is the second wife of Jack Straw, whose first marriage in the mid-1970s ended in divorce. [1] In 2002 she was made a Dame by New Labour leader, Tony Blair.[2]
