What is Catherine Ashton?
{{BLP sources|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = The Baroness Ashton<br>of Upholland | honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMGf|PC}} | image = Baroness Ashton headshot.jpg | caption = Ashton in 2009 | office = [[Vice-President of the European Commission|First Vice President of the European Commission]] | president = [[José Manuel Barroso]] | term_start = 9 February 2010 | term_end = 1 November 2014 | predecessor = [[Margot Wallström]] | successor = [[Frans Timmermans]] | office1 = [[High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy]] | nominator1 = [[Gordon Brown]] | term_start1 = 1 December 2009 | term_end1 = 1 November 2014 | predecessor1 = [[Javier Solana]] {{small|(Common Foreign and Security Policy)}} | successor1 = [[Federica Mogherini]] | office2 = [[European Commissioner for Trade]] | nominator2 = [[Gordon Brown]] | president2 = [[José Manuel Barroso]] | term_start2 = 3 October 2008 | term_end2 = 1 December 2009 | predecessor2 = [[Peter Mandelson]] | successor2 = [[Benita Ferrero-Waldner]] | office3 = [[Leader of the House of Lords]]<br>[[Lord President of the Council]] | monarch3 = [[Elizabeth II]] | primeminister3 = [[Gordon Brown]] | term_start3 = 28 June 2007 | term_end3 = 3 October 2008 | predecessor3 = [[Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos|The Baroness Amos]] | successor3 = [[Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon|The Baroness Royall of Blaisdon]] | office4 = [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice]] | monarch4 = [[Elizabeth II]] | primeminister4 = [[Tony Blair]] | term_start4 = 8 May 2007 | term_end4 = 27 June 2007 | predecessor4 = ''Herself'' | succes