Usha Kumari Prashar, Baroness Prashar, (born 29 June 1948) is a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chairman of a variety of public and private sector organisations. She became the first chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006.
Usha Kumari Prashar joined as a crossbench member of the house of lords to be successful in her other endeavors 