Bertha McDougall, OBE was the interim Commissioner for Victims and Survivors of the Troubles.
Her husband Lindsay, a civil servant and part-time Royal Ulster Constabulary Reservist, was shot dead by the Irish National Liberation Army in January 1981 while on duty in Belfast.
[2] She is chairman of the victims' group, Forgotten Families, which was set up to lobby on behalf of pre-1982 widows.
She was a school teacher at the Fane Street Primary School in Belfast for 15 years before being seconded to the Northern Ireland Council for Educational Development, where she is co-ordinator for EMU (Education for Mutual Understanding) in cross community projects.
[citation needed] Her last position was as Principal Officer with the Council for Curriculum Examinations and Assessment (CCEA).