Directorate Change

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
08 March 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JD WETHERSPOON PLC

8th MARCH 2006



                               JD Wetherspoon plc

                     Appointment of non-executive director





JD Wetherspoon plc ('the Company') is pleased to announce that Debra van Gene
has been appointed a non-executive director of the Company, with immediate
effect.  Debra has extensive experience of the advertising and executive search
industries.



Tim Martin, Chairman of JD Wetherspoon plc, said:



'The Board will benefit from Debra's marketing and advertising experience and I
look forward to her contribution to the Company going forward.'




Enquiries:
John Hutson, Chief Executive, Tel.: [phone]
Jim Clarke, Finance Director, Tel.: [phone]
Eddie Gershon, Company Spokesman, 07956 392 234


Visit our web site at www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk.


Debra van Gene, 51, is a graduate of Oxford University. She spent 17 years in
the advertising industry, ending as deputy managing director of Butterfield Day
Devito Hockney.  Since then she has worked in the executive search industry.
She was a Partner at Heidrick and Struggles, and now runs her own company, Debra
van Gene Associates Ltd, of which she is Managing Director. Debra van Gene has
advised the Company that she does not have any further disclosures to make under
the Listing Rules LR9.6.13R (1) to LR9.6.13R (6).




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