Dr '''Ann Barker''' JP (born [[August 5]], [[1946]]) is a [[historian]], [[criminologist]] and [[public servant]] in [[Britain]].<ref name=CAC/> She is a [[Justice of the Peace]], the Complaints Commissioner of the [[Bar Standards Board]] and [[Chairman|Chair]] of the Complaints Audit Committee, an independent inspectorate set up by the UK government to restore public confidence in the immigration and asylum system administered by the [[Border and Immigration Agency]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/dec/19/immigrationandpublicservices.immigration|publisher=The Guardian|title=New watchdog to monitor troubled immigration and asylum service|author=Alan Travis, Paul Lewis, Tania Branigan|date=19 Dec 2006}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/news/press/600.html|publisher=Bar Standards Board|title=BSB appoints new Complaints Commissioner|date=1 July 2008}}</ref> She also sits on [[General Medical Council]] Fitness to Practise Panels, the [[Mental Health Review Tribunal]], and the appeal panel of the medical Royal Colleges.<ref name=CAC>{{citation|url=http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/nov/CAC%20REPORT%200607.pdf|publisher=Border and Immigration Agency|title=Complaints Audit Committee annual report 2006/2007|date=November 2007|page=6}}</ref> She is a former member and spokeswoman for the [[Parole Board]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/justice-on-trial-vigilante-fears-overshadow-parole-hearings-for-killers-of-james-bulger-674475.html|title=Justice on trial|author=Terri Judd|date=18 June 2001|publisher=The Independent}}</ref> She was appointed to serve on the [[Police Complaints Authority]] from 3 December 2001.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo011016/text/11016w19.htm|title=Police Complaints Authority|publisher=Hansard|date=16 Oct 2001}}</ref>
== Personal life ==
She was born in [[Pasadena, California]] as Ann Botsford Callender, being descended from the Callenders of [[Stirlingshire]] and the Botsford dynasty of [[New Brunswick]], (see [[Amos Botsford]] and [[Amos Edwin Botsford]], two-time speaker of the Canadian Senate).<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.billhamiltonflashback.ca/listnews.php?id=102&cid=&searchtext=&offset=20 Looking Back On Confederation: The Remarkable Botsford Dynasty Parts One & Two|title=Bill Hamilton's Tantramar Flashback}}</ref>
She was educated at [[Westridge School (Pasadena)]], [[Mount Holyoke]] and [[Harvard University]]. While studying for her doctorate, she was a [[Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation|Woodrow Wilson scholar]] and Harvard graduate prize fellow.
== The Archers ==
She was friends with [[Mary Archer]] since they met at [[Newnham College]] in Cambridge. The Archers' sons taped her and her husband, Godfrey, in their [[Mayfair]] home in May 1997, talking about the judge [[Humphrey Potts]] who presided over the trial for [[perjury]] of the famous novelist and politician, [[Jeffrey Archer]]. This was done to gather evidence for the second appeal against the conviction of Lord Archer but this was unsuccessful.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1144178.ece|date=June 21, 2003|title=Archer sons bug friends at lunch to get new appeal|publisher=The Times|author=Andrew Pierce}}</ref>
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