Pauline Jarman (born 15 December 1945) is a Welsh politician. She was the

Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru ( ; , ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left, Welsh nationalist list of political parties in Wales, political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from th ...

National Assembly for Wales The Senedd ( ; ), officially known as the Welsh Parliament in English and () in Welsh, is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Wales. A democratically elected body, Its role is to scrutinise the Welsh Government and legislate on devolve ...

Member for

South Wales Central South Wales Central () is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in 1999, ...

from 1999 to 2003 as well as being leader of

Rhondda Cynon Taff Rhondda Cynon Taf (; RCT; also spelt as Rhondda Cynon Taff) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It consists of five valleys: the Rhondda Fawr, Rhondda Fach, Cynon, Taff () and Ely valleys, plus several towns and villages away from ...

Council from 1999 to 2004. Educated at Mountain Ash Grammar School, she is a former

Cynon Valley Cynon Valley () is a former coal mining valley in Wales. It lies between Rhondda and the Merthyr Valley and takes its name from the River Cynon. Aberdare is located in the north of the valley and Mountain Ash in the south. From 1974 to 19 ...

Borough Councillor and

Mid Glamorgan Mid Glamorgan () is a preserved county of Wales. From 1974 until 1996 it was also an administrative county with a county council. Mid Glamorgan was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It consisted of part of the former adminis ...

County Councillor.

Council Opposition Leader until 2022. Jarman is a former Mayor. Jarman lost her seat on the council in May 2022, as a result of changes to ward boundaries which meant her former ward of Mountain Ash East has been merged. She had been a councillor for 46 years. After the result was announced for the new

Mountain Ash Mountain ash may refer to: * ''Eucalyptus regnans'', the tallest of all flowering plants, native to Australia * Mountain-ashes or rowans, varieties of trees and shrubs in the genus ''Sorbus'' See also

* Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, a town ...

ward, Jarman pledged to "wallow in the luxury of my family now" and also finish a book she had been writing.

References

Profile on BBC website September 1999

Offices held

1945 births 20th-century British women politicians Living people Members of Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council Members of Mid Glamorgan County Council Plaid Cymru members of the Senedd Wales AMs 1999–2003 Plaid Cymru councillors Female members of the Senedd Women councillors in Wales {{Wales-AM-stub