Commonwealth gets a new Secretary-General

Baroness Patricia Janet Scotland is now the new Secretary General of the Commonwealth group of Nations. She was announced the new Sec-Gen this afternoon at the Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting holding in Malta. She will be the first woman to hold the office.

Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, PC, QC (born 19 August 1955) is a British barrister and jurist, who served in many ministerial positions within the UK Government, most notably as the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland. At the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting she was elected the 6th Secretary-Generalof the Commonwealth of Nations and will take office April 1, 2016. She will be the first woman to hold the post......From Wikipedia