From the Wikipedia page Dame Sally Ann Powell, DBE (née Vickers; born 2 October 1955) is a local councillor in Great Britain for the Labour Party, where she is deputy leader of the Local Government Association's Labour Group. Sally Ann Vickers was born in Bristol and educated at the Royal Ballet School; she became a dancer with the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet. She later attended Southampton University where she obtained a law degree in 1984, and qualified as a solicitor. Married to Iain Coleman