Sir James Christopher Jenkins, KCB, KC (Hon) (born 20 May 1939) is a British lawyer and retired parliamentary draftsman.[1]
Born in 1939, Jenkins attended Lewes County Grammar School and Magdalen College, Oxford,[2] graduating with a first-class BA in jurisprudence in 1961.[3] He worked at Slaughter and May between 1962 and 1967,[2] and was admitted a solicitor in February 1965.[4] He joined the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in 1967, and was promoted to be a Parliamentary Counsel in 1978, the Second Parliamentary Counsel in 1991 and then First Parliamentary Counsel in 1994, serving until retirement in 1999.[2] Jenkins was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1987 Birthday Honours,[5] and promoted to Knight Commander in the 1999 Birthday Honours.[6] He was made an honorary Queen's Counsel in 1994.[2]