Pauline has been a local Councillor since 1987. She was honoured to hold the position of Mayor of Derby during 2007/08.
Married to local architect Derek, they have three grown up children and three grandchildren, Poppy, Harry and Oscar. She was born in Lincolnshire, brought up in Nottinghamshire and has lived in Derbyshire since 1970 and in Mid Derbyshire for over 25 years.
She has a special interest in education issues, was a school governor at Ecclesbourne School for 12 years and a member of the PTA for 8 years before that. She was a founder member of the Grant Maintained Schools Advisory Committee and its Chairman for several years until she retired in order to fight the European Election in 2004. Pauline was a parliamentary candidate for Broxtowe in 2001 and stood as a European candidate in 1999 as well as 2004 for the East Midlands.
Pauline has led two Social Action Projects to Uganda involving students from Woodlands School in Allestree and Ecclesbourne School in Duffield. They spent many months fund raising locally to help schools in a rural part of Uganda to build new classrooms, and took out hand sewing machines for an aids project and some computers to help the rural community to learn how to use them. She has recently returned from another trip where she opened Derby Hall at Mirembe Secondary School which was funded by Project Uganda.