Zoe Holland, chief commercial officer at PI specialist Fletchers Group, is one of the few solicitors named in the King’s first birthday honours list. Holland, admitted in 1998, receives the MBE for services to charity. 

The honours list also honours three holders of judicial posts. Former district judge Stephen Rogers, county and family court, chair of the Mental Health Tribunal and Crown court recorder, receives the CBE for services to the administration of justice. 

Zoe Holland MBE

Zoe Holland MBE: making a lasting difference

Source: Fletchers Group

MBEs go to Jean Bonnick JP, vice president of the Norfolk Magistrates’ Association, for services to the administration of justice and Jennifer Cross JP, former member, Mental Health and Care Standards.

Holland has 30 years of experience in serving charities, including her role as vice chair of the SBA – the Solicitors’ Charity, parent ambassador for Young Minds as well as the charity she founded during the pandemic, Silk Elephant. 

Fletchers said that she has used her professional platform to champion underrepresented groups, particularly the brain and spinal injured community. In March 2020 she set up registered charity Silk Elephant, from her home in Manchester, delivering ‘simple acts of loving kindness’ to vulnerable people and bereaved families all over the world.

Peter Haden, chief executive at Fletchers Group, said: 'On behalf of all of us at Fletchers Group, our congratulations go to Zoe for this richly deserved award. She is a high achiever "sans pareil", and I have no doubt that she will continue to make a lasting difference in both business and in her charity work.'

  • DLA Piper partner Vincent Keaveny, a former lord mayor of London, received the CBE for services to socio-economic advancement, British-Irish relations and for his work for the City of London.