20 May Brentwood Borough Council elects new mayor
Brentwood Borough Council has elected Councillor Noelle Hones as the Mayor of Brentwood for 2016/17 to take over the role of ambassador and first citizen of the borough for the coming year.
Councillor Hones replaces Councillor Mark Reed who held the role last year.
Councillor Hones, who is Brentwood’s 25th Mayor, was born and brought up in Basildon. The youngest of five children, she was educated at St Anne Line Primary School in Basildon and La Sainte Union Convent School for Girls in Grays.
She left school aged 16 and went to work in the City for JP Morgan Bank. After 12 years at the firm she rose to the position of Assistant Vice President heading the Administrative Support Team for the Interest Rate Swap Traders. She loved every minute of it, and met some wonderful people, many of whom are still her friends today.
She stayed at the bank until leaving to start a family and decided that being a full time mum was the best career move she ever made.
Her eldest son Matthew was born in New York in February 1990 while they were living in America. Before he was born, Noelle was working temporarily for the New York Cooking School in Greenwich Village as a receptionist. They then returned to live in Fryerning in 1992 and Noelle had two more sons, George and Oliver, who were born in 1993 and 1995 respectively.
Noelle now lives in Ingatestone with her husband Jon and their two yellow Labradors, Sonny and Lucy.
She was elected to Brentwood Borough Council to represent Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing in 2007.
