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DOWNING COLLEGE ASSOCIATIONJenny Young (1987) (maiden name Ball) has been appointed Head of Diversityat The Royal Academy of Engineering. In this role she is responsible for thenew BIS-funded Diversity programme under which the Academy is leadingefforts within Engineering to support under-represented groups in theprofession. The programme will involve close working with the professionalinstitutions initially and subsequently with industry and with the HE sectorand earlier stages of the engineering pipeline.She notes that our President, John Hicks, is a Fellow of the Academy.A DOWNING C O-INCIDENCENeil Robinson (1965) is an Engineer, specialising in investigating failures. Hewrites “Last year I was investigating the issue of why the Blowout Preventer onthe BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico did not prevent the blowout (working onbehalf of the US Dept of Justice). While poring over some samples in a lab inOhio, I was surprised to find Dr John Slater (1963) doing the same. TwoDowning Engineers among the comparatively small number of investigatorsstruck me as a surprising coincidence.”D OWNING ON THE B ENCH AND AT THE B ARThis has been a noteworthy time for appointments of members of the Collegeto senior positions on Bench and at Bar. For, in addition to the appointmentof The Rt Hon. Sir Kim Lewison (1970) to the Court of Appeal as a LordJustice and of Sir Bernard Eder (1972) to the Queen’s Bench Division of theHigh Court of Justice as noted in the 2011 Association Newsletter, the last yearhas seen further appointments.Sir David Lloyd Jones (1970), previously judge of the Queen’s BenchDivision of the High Court, has been appointed Chairman of the LawCommission and, thereafter, as a Lord Justice of Appeal whereupon he will besworn of the Privy Council and become The Rt Hon. Sir David Lloyd Jones.David came up in 1970 from Pontypridd Grammar School (a matter ofsome satisfaction to the present writer who had also been a boy at that school)to read Law which he did with conspicuous success. For he took good firsts inall parts of the Law Tripos and the LL.B. (now LL.M.) and was elected McNairScholar and then Whewell Scholar in International Law of the University.Whilst up, he played an active part in the life of the College and was especiallyactive in its musical life as a player of the clarinet. He was called to the Barby Middle Temple (of which he is now a Bencher). He was elected Fellow ofthe College in 1975, remained a Fellow until 1991 and was Dean for much ofthat time.33