It is with great sadness that JVET remembers Lorna Unwin, who was editor of this journal from 2011 to 2014. In what follows, we will follow the fairly standard path of such memorials, recounting Lorna’s career in brief before turning to the more important consideration of what she meant as a person. I will write something at that point as someone she mentored in a brief but intense period before giving the floor to those who knew Lorna far better than me both as a person and an academic.