The Chieftain of the Day for 2010, is Susan Cooke, High Commissioner for Clan Lindsay, in Australia, President of Clan Lindsay.
Susan Mary Cooke was born in Sydney in 1953 and grew up at North Bondi. She was educated at Rose Bay Primary School, Kambala Church of England School for Girls and Macquarie University.
She holds the degree Bachelor of Arts with a major in Australian History. She also holds a Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety.
She is descended from First and Second Fleet convicts who settled on Norfolk Island before being re-settled as emancipists at New Norfolk in Tasmania. She is also descended from two waves of Scots who immigrated to Australia, the first to the Victorian gold rush, and the second to NSW during the 1920s.
Susan and her sister were raised by their Grandmother Lindsay to believe that they were truly Scottish.
Susan worked in Sydney and London as a stockbroker's clerk before entering the Australian Public Service. She worked at the National Archives of Australia for 15 years as an Archivist and also in Human Resources. She also worked for 8 years at the Australian Taxation Office in Human Resources, principally as an Occupational Health & Safety advisor.
