Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins, (born 22 June 1946)[1] is a professor of the psychiatry of learning disability at St George's, University of London, and a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords since October 2010.[2] She was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2005 to 2008, succeeded by Dinesh Bhugra.[3][4]
Hollins is married to Martin Hollins.[4] She is the mother of Abigail Witchalls, who was stabbed and left paralysed in 2005,[5] and has a son, now in his thirties, who was born with learning difficulties.[4] She is a Roman Catholic.[6]