Jennifer Clare Tomlinson (née Mills) (born 10 August 1961) has been Archdeacon of Birmingham, England, since 2019. [1]
Tomlinson was educated at Humphrey Perkins School up to the age of 16 [2] and took her A levels at Rawlins Academy in Quorn, Leicestershire. [3] She attended St Bartholomew's Church, Quorn.
She studied history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
She was ordained after a period of study at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Her first posts were curacies in Godalming. [4] She was a hospital chaplain at Thurrock from 1998 to 2009; and Bishop's Adviser on Women's Ministry [5] from 2008 until her appointment as Archdeacon. [6]
She married in 1993, and has two daughters.