Iona Sara Macintyre McDonald OBE[1] (born 18 November 1954) is a Scottish sheriff who was appointed as a temporary Sheriff in 1994 before receiving a full appointment in 2000 to the Sheriffdom of North Strathclyde, sitting in both the Paisley and Kilmarnock Sheriff courts.
Since 2007, she has been Senior Sheriff at Kilmarnock and has served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Arran since 2017.
[2][3] McDonald was educated at Cumnock Academy and graduated from Glasgow University with a Master of Arts in 1976 and a law degree in 1978.
[4] She is a solicitor, and previously worked for the Ayr firm Mathie-Morton, Black and Buchanan, where she became partner in 1982.
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