Council profile

Lynda Towers

Lynda Towers has been co-opted to Council for a three-year term on her election to the role of chair of the In-house Lawyers Group. Lynda, who qualified as a solicitor in 1981, has worked in the Government Legal Service for Scotland and is currently solicitor to the Scottish Parliament. She has sat on the ILG committee since 2002, and also sits on the Society’s Law Reform Committee. Her predecessor as ILG chair, Janet Hood, stepped down at last month’s AGM after 16 years’ involvement with the ILG but remains on Council having recently been elected as a member for the Dundee constituency.

Paul Matthews

Dumfries solicitor Paul Matthews is joining Council, filling the vacancy to represent the constituency of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Stranraer. Admitted as a solicitor in 1986, Paul is a resident partner in the Dumfries office of A B & A Mtthews, which has offices in Dumfries, Newton Stewart and Stranraer.

Apologies to Paul’s brother Peter Matthews, omitted from the September Council members feature