Megan Pullum, KC is a British-born lawyer practising in

Guernsey Guernsey ( ; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; ) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited isl ...

who has been HM Procureur and Receiver General (Attorney-General) on the island since 2016.

Career

Pullum was born in the United Kingdom, the daughter of Dr Geoffrey Pullum and his wife Anne. She was educated at Hertfordshire and Essex High School for Girls, before attending the

University of Nantes Nantes University () is a public university located in the city of Nantes, France. In addition to the several campuses scattered in the city of Nantes, there are two satellite campuses located in Saint-Nazaire and La Roche-sur-Yon. The university ...

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, which awarded her a ''

Diplôme d'études universitaires générales The Diplôme d'études universitaires générales (French for ''General Academic Studies Degree''), abbreviated DEUG, was a French undergraduate degree that required two years of studies, roughly equivalent to an associate degree in the American ed ...

'' in 1992. The following year, she graduated with a law degree (

LLB A Bachelor of Laws (; LLB) is an undergraduate law degree offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree and serves as the first professional qualification for legal practitioners. This degree requires the study of core legal subje ...

) in Law and French from the University of Wales College of Cardiff. After studying at the College of Law in

York York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a Yor ...

, in 1996 she was admitted a solicitor. She completed a master's degree in law (

LLM A large language model (LLM) is a language model trained with Self-supervised learning, self-supervised machine learning on a vast amount of text, designed for natural language processing tasks, especially Natural language generation, language g ...

) at the

University of Glamorgan The University of Glamorgan () was a public university based in South Wales, that merged with University of Wales, Newport to form the University of South Wales in April 2013. The university was based in Pontypridd, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, with ...

in 2000 and five years later, the

University of Caen The University of Caen Normandy (French: ''Université de Caen Normandie''), also known as Unicaen, is a public university in Caen, France. History The institution was founded in 1432 by John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, the first rector ...

awarded her a ''Certificat d’études juridiques françaises et normandes''."Pullum, Megan Michelle Elaine"
''Who's Who 2017'' (A & C Black; online edition, Oxford University Press, November 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017. In 2006, Pullum was called to the

Bar and six years later she was appointed

Queen's Counsel A King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch (or their Viceroy, viceregal representative) of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarc ...

in the Bailiwick. In 2012, she replaced Richard McMahon as HM Comptroller of Guernsey after he became Deputy Bailiff in place of Richard Collas, who became Bailiff. She was the first woman to hold a Crown officer's position on the island. In 2016, she replaced Howard Roberts as HM Procureur and Receiver General for Guernsey."New HM Procureur and Receiver General"
''Island FM'', 27 May 2016. November 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pullum, Megan People from the Bailiwick of Guernsey 1971 births Living people British women lawyers Nantes University alumni Alumni of Cardiff University Alumni of the University of Glamorgan University of Caen Normandy alumni