Karen Trew

Karen is a chartered accountant who worked in audit practice at Deloitte, having held Finance and Procurement management positions in the retail sector between 1989 and 2003.

She has been a magistrate since 2004 and is Chair of the North and East Hertfordshire bench. She is also a member of both the Hertfordshire Out of Court Disposals Scrutiny Panel and the Hertfordshire Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel.

She has held several non-Executive and Chair positions in Public Services in education, health, and justice sectors, including the Hertfordshire Probation Trust as well as six non-Executive roles within the NHS. Most recently, she was Deputy Chair for the NHS North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group until June 2022.

Her other current positions include being a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire; Chair of Governors / Trustees at The Broxbourne School; and Chair of Governors at Wormley C of E Primary School (VC).

She has a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Warwick.