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About the Deputy Mayor
The Mayor's Office - May 2008
mayors.office@kirklees.gov.uk
Councillor Julie Stewart-Turner
Born in Richmond, Surrey, Julie Stewart spent her childhood and young adult years mainly in the South East.
Her working life was mainly in administration. In her mid 20s Julie had an opportunity to work closely with
a management consultancy and arranged a break from her regular job to spend a few weeks in Paris and Nice
with the consultants.
Julie moved to Yorkshire in 1991 to continue to develop her career with the management consultancy. Then, at the
age of 30 Julie took advantage of an opportunity to seek new adventures in South Africa.
After varied working and life experiences, Julie knew her future lay back in Huddersfield; she married Darrel
Turner and settled in Taylor Hill. Before long she was well known in the area for saving Lockwood & Salford Village Green,
and being a founder of the Yorkshire Games. She is proud that she was conferred honorary Yorkshire lass status by the locals after only 8 years.
Fuelled by her active community life, and her passion for helping individuals and community groups to develop,
Julie became a Kirklees Green Party Councillor in May 2002.
Julie values her position as a Councillor because it enables her to support many local community initiatives
and facilitate the involvement of local people to ensure they have real influence.
A driving force in Julie's life is fairness and honesty; this translates to her desire to achieve transparency
and openness in council life. She does this through her work and dedication to Overview and Scrutiny, and Council Standards.
Julie and Darrel support each other in their work. Darrel will be Julie's Consort during her time as Deputy Mayor,
and Julie will continue her part-time work helping Darrel to run his business. Darrel is a self employed businessman,
providing bespoke CNC routing services to a range of industries.
Working life keeps Julie and Darrel very busy but they still make time for hobbies and interests. Together they enjoy short
trips on canals and rivers in 'Lazy Daze', the cabin cruiser that Darrel recently restored. Separately, Darrel
continues to enjoy sport, including 5-a-side football and swimming. Whilst Julie concentrates on personal development
including keeping fit and studying for higher education qualifications. Her particular interest is Psychology in which she
is pleased to have achieved an A grade A Level in 2007.
* CNC means Computer Numerically Controlled and relates to a process of programming a machine in order to cut a range of materials, for several different manufacturing industries.
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