Rosie Cooper

Rosie Cooper MP
Rosie Cooper (right).
Member of Parliament for West Lancashire
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2005
Preceded by	Colin Pickthall
Majority	4,343 (8.9%)
Personal details
Born	(1950-09-05) 5 September 1950 (age 66) Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Nationality	English
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Liverpool
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Website	http://www.rosiecooper.net/

Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper (born 5 September 1950) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Lancashire since 2005.

Cooper was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, the daughter of deaf parents. She was educated locally, initially at St Oswald's Roman Catholic Primary School and at Bellerive Convent Grammar School (now known as Bellerive FCJ High School on Ullet Road (A5089) in Dingle, Liverpool. She then attended the University of Liverpool.

Cooper originally worked for a company called W. Cooper Ltd from 1973 to 1980, before joining Littlewoods initially as a buyer when, in 1994, she became the public relations manager and then, in 1995, the group corporate communications manager. She became a project coordinator in 1999, before she left Littlewoods in 2001, when she was appointed director at the Merseyside Centre for the Deaf.

She was a member of the Liverpool Health Authority and held the position of vice chair between 1994 to 1996. In 1996, she became Chair of Liverpool Women's Hospital.

She has also acted as a trustee of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, and a director of the Merseyside Centre for the Deaf.

Cooper was elected, aged 22, to the Liverpool City Council as a Liberal councillor in 1973 and, in 1992, became the Lord Mayor of Liverpool; she stood down from the city council in 2000.