[1] Before becoming the coroner, she had left her hometown of Newcastle-under-Lyme for Birmingham at 18 and worked as a nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham from 1984, graduating with a law degree in 1992.
She was appointed as Birmingham Coroner in 2013 on the resignation of Aidan Cotter OBE who had been in the role for a little more than a decade.
In the process, Louise became the first female coroner in Birmingham and only the ninth person to hold the role of Birmingham Coroner since 1840.
[1] In 2016 she was asked by a campaign of bereaved families to resume the inquest into the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974.
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