THE UK-WIDE Nursing and Midwifery Council have announced a Maxonian is to be their new president.
Sandra Arthur, 49, from Macclesfield will be the first elected president following a ballot of the new council.
The former Tytherington High School pupil spent 31 years working with the NHS; 26 within midwifery.
She has been a midwife lecturer at Cardiff University since 1998 and a supervisor of midwives since 1996.
The award-winning president-elect said: "It is a significant honour for me to have been elected to the office of president.
"Council members have placed their trust in me and I look forward to rewarding that trust by building on the solid foundations of the transitional council and working together with all council members, NMC staff and stakeholder partners to continue the NMC's primary function of protecting the public across all four countries of the UK."
Sandra received a Royal College of Midwives Education Award and the Health Professions Wales Research Training Fellowship amongst many others.
Other strings to her bow include editing Midwifery Matters - an Association of Radical Midwives journal and spending two years running Asian and Somali women's health workshops.
Chief executive Sarah Thewlis said: "This is the first time elected registrant members and appointed lay members of the council have elected one of their peers to the office of president. The president has a critical role to play in leading the council through a period of change and development."
Sir Jonathan Asbridge, outgoing President said the role was hard work but was confident Sandra would provide effective leadership.
The election will be ratified by the council at its first meeting in September.
The NMC is the regulatory body for the nursing and midwifery profession and maintains a register of around 682,000 qualified nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nurses.
