Louise Hunt (coroner)

Louise Hunt is a British coroner who is currently HM Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, and the first female ever to take up the role, preceded by eight male coroners before her.

Before becoming the coroner, she had left her hometown of Newcastle-under-Lyme for Birmingham at 18 and worked as a nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham from 1984, graduating with a law degree in 1992. She was appointed to the rolls as a solicitor in 1995. She was appointed as Birmingham Coroner in 2013 on the resignation of Aidan Cotter OBE who had been in the role for a little more than a decade. In the process, Louise became the first female coroner in Birmingham and only the ninth person to hold the role of Birmingham Coroner since 1840.

In 2016 she was asked by a campaign of bereaved families to resume the inquest into the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974.