Baroness Eluned Morgan has been nominated as Wales' first female first minister.
The 57-year-old has a political career spanning three decades.
In that time, she's served as an MEP, shadow minister in the House of Lords and has held several positions within the Welsh government.
She unsuccessfully stood for the Welsh Labour leadership in 2018, finishing in third place after a vote of the membership.
Ahead of the vote, she said she would renounce her peerage if elected first minister.
In an interview with WalesOnline during that campaign, she described herself as "quite normal for a politician and quite down to earth".
Early life
Ms Morgan was born in Ely, Cardiff, the daughter of a vicar.
The Reverend Canon Bob Morgan was himself a Labour Party politician, who served as leader of South Glamorgan County Council.
The family of her mother, who was also a councillor, hail from Pembrokeshire in west Wales.
Baroness Morgan studied at a Welsh-medium secondary school and won a scholarship to study at the United World College of the Atlantic in the Vale of Glamorgan.
She says she was interested in politics before starting her studies but that "an interest in the international dimensions of politics and world affairs was kindled during my two years there".
Having her beliefs challenged by people from around the globe during her studies "helped shape [her] political beliefs".
She then gained a degree in European Studies from the University of Hull.
She has previously worked as a researcher for the BBC and Welsh-language broadcaster S4C.
Entering politics
Baroness Morgan was 27 years old when she was elected to the European parliament, and became its youngest member, in 1994.
Only the fifth woman to be elected to a full-time political position in Wales, Baroness Morgan was the first full-time politician to have a baby while in office.
She remained an MEP for 15 years and was granted a peerage, a year after she decided not to run again, in 2011, and has since been formally known as Baroness Morgan of Ely, in reference to a suburb of Cardiff.
In the House of Lords, she served as shadow minister for Wales from 2013 to 2016 and from 2014 to 2016 as shadow minister for foreign affairs.
Time in the Senedd
In 2016, Baroness Morgan stood for election to the Senedd and has represented Mid and West Wales since that vote.
The following year, she was appointed minister for the Welsh language and lifelong learning
She then held ministerial roles with responsibility for international relations and mental health.
Since the 2021 Senedd election, Baroness Morgan has served as health secretary under both Mark Drakeford and Vaughan Gething.
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Toward the latter stages of the COVID pandemic, she became one of the most prominent faces in the Welsh government's response to the virus, often fronting news conferences with the latest announcements.
Last year, she won a vote of no confidence called by opposition parties after a damning report into Wales's largest health board.
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