Press release from the Prime Minister’s Office
Appointment of Second Church Estates Commissioner: 7 October 2024
The King has approved the nomination of Marsha de Cordova, Member of Parliament for Battersea, to be appointed as Second Church Estates Commissioner.
From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street
Published 7 October 2024The King has approved the nomination of Marsha de Cordova, Member of Parliament for Battersea, to be appointed as Second Church Estates Commissioner
Marsha de Cordova is the Labour MP for Battersea, and has been an MP since 8 June 2017.
She was educated at London South Bank University studying Law and European Policy Studies. She was born with Nystagmus and is registered blind.
She has worked for numerous charities including Action for Blind People and Thomas Pocklington Trust before founding the charity South East London Vision (SELVis) in 2014. She was elected as a Labour Party councillor for the Larkhall ward on Lambeth Council in 2014.
Marsha has served in the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities and Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) (Disabled People). She also served on the Work and Pensions Select Committee and the Petitions Committee.
There is also a press release from the Church Commissoners.
The Second Church Estates Commissioner answers oral and written questions from MPs in the House of Commons about Church of England matters, is a member of Parliament’s Ecclesiastical Committee, and guides Church of England legislation through the House of Commons. She will be a member of the Church Commissioners’ Board of Governors and an ex-officio member of the General Synod.
The Church Times report, https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/11-october/news/uk/marsha-de-cordova-appointed-second-church-estates-commissioner includes some additional information: In an interview with the Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron, on Premier Radio in 2021, she described discovering Christian faith during her twenties after being invited to a church. It was the account of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples that had proved pivotal, she said. She considered her election in a seat deemed unwinnable in 2017 to be “God-breathed”: “That was my calling to public service by the Lord, and I will do so for as long as he wants me in that position.” She has attended Holy Trinity,… Read more »
It’s been a while coming but in the end it looks like a promising appointment.