Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar

The Right Honourable The Baroness Prashar CBE PC
Official portrait, 2022
Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission
In office 3 April 2006 – 7 February 2011
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Christopher Stephens
Chancellor of De Montfort University
In office 2000–2006
Vice-Chancellor	Philip Tasker
Preceded by	John White
Succeeded by	The Lord Alli
Members of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 July 1999 Life Peerage
Director of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations
In office 1986–1991
Preceded by	Bill Griffiths
Succeeded by	Judy Weleminsky
Personal details
Born	Usha Kumari Prashar (1948-06-29) 29 June 1948 (age 75)
Nationality	British

Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar is a British politician and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chair of a variety of public and private sector organisations. She became the first chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006.