Diane Connell was a Deputy Justices’ Clerk in Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service until 2008. She then worked part-time as a Legal Adviser in North Kent Magistrates’ Court until her retirement in 2016. She is an alumni of Wilmington Grammar School for Girls, as is her daughter. Starting as a Governor at WGSG in September 1992, she became Chair of the Local Governing Body in 2005 until standing down in September 2021. For many years she volunteered for St John Ambulance in Kent as a Youth Leader and Trainer.