Patron
Breidge Gadd
Breidge Gadd was involved in social and probation work in her full time professional career
She was Chief Probation Officer for the Northern Ireland Probation Board from 1986 until 2000.
Breidge attended the inaugural meeting of the CEP in 1981 in Paris and served on the CEP Board. In 1993 she and her colleague from Southern Ireland hosted a joint split General Assembly in Belfast and Dublin.
Breidge also attended the Council of Europe Committees concerned with Community sanctions during the 1990s on behalf of the CEP.
After leaving the Probation Service, as well as involvement in voluntary organisations, Breidge chaired a public committee which allocated lottery funding to innovative community, education and health projects.
She was also a Board member of the Legal aid Committee and the Judicial Appointments Commission.
She was a weekly columnist on a Northern Irish newspaper and commentator on justice matters in the media.
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