Early Career
Jackie Ballard was born, Jacqueline Margaret Mackenzie, in Dunoon, Scotland. Her family moved, when she was 10, to South Wales, where she studied at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. She then read social psychology at the London School of Economics. She was recruited into the then Liberal Party by Paddy Ashdown and was elected a Councillor for both the South Somerset District Council (1987–1991) and Somerset County Council (1993–1997).
She stood as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in Taunton in the 1992 General Election, coming second, before winning the seat in 1997.
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