Honour for Scottish Executive solicitor
3 Jan 07
Richard Henderson becomes CB in New Year Honours List
Richard Henderson, the solicitor who heads the Scottish Executive's legal advisory team, has been made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the New Year's Honours List.
Mr Henderson (59) joined the then Scottish Office Solicitor’s Office in 1972 on qualifying as a solicitor. During his career there he dealt variously with agriculture, education, public local inquiries and employment law, and undertook a three-year secondment to the Scottish Law Commission. He was appointed a divisional solicitor in 1987, Deputy Solicitor in 1996 and Solicitor to the Secretary of State for Scotland in 1998 before becoming Solicitor to the Scottish Executive on devolution in 1999.
He has also served for the past eight years as a co-opted member of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland.
Mrs Wilma Dickson, a head of division in the Scottish Executive Justice Department, has also been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), as was the well-known novelist and Professor of Law and Medical Ethics, Alexander McCall Smith, for services to literature.