In February 2004, The Very Reverend June Osborne was appointed Dean of Salisbury making her the Church of England's most senior woman priest. This is the first and only appointment of a woman Dean by the Crown. Her installation as Dean on 1st May that year also made her the first woman Dean of the 13th century cathedral to hold the post in the Cathedral's 749 year history and the first female Dean of any of Britain's medieval cathedrals. Salisbury Cathedral is one of England’s treasures, an iconic and sacred site visited by more than 500,000 people each year. Set in the Close once described by Bill Bryson as ‘the most beautiful space in England’ it is also a complex organisation with revenue and capital budgets in excess of £5 millions a year, a combined force of 700 staff and volunteers and having within its Foundation a direct labour force of Masons and Glaziers and a successful co-educational school of which the Dean is Chairman of Governors. Salisbury Cathedral has a reputation for excellence and innovation. A one-time member of the panel of chairmen of the General Synod and member of its Standing Committee, the Dean has also chaired the Salisbury Diocesan Advisory Committee.

After graduating in Social Sciences from Manchester University June went on to train in the Church's ministry at St John's College, Nottingham and Wycliffe Hall in Oxford. In 1980 she took up the post of Deaconess at St Martin-in-the-Bullring in Birmingham moving on to the East London Old Ford parishes in 1984. In 1994 she was one of the first group of women to be ordained into the priesthood and moved to Salisbury in 1995 as one of the Cathedral's four residentiary canons. June has recently led a delegation of the Church of England to South Africa to an Anglican Communion conference addressing the issues of global poverty and inequality and is playing a key role in the Communion’s commitment to implementing the Millennium Development Goals. She is also a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire.

In June 2009 she was appointed by The Archbishops of Canterbury and York to join a panel of clergy to help select and elect new Deans.

June Osborne is married to barrister Paul Goulding QC and they have two teenage children. She has an interest in the arts and in football – being a lifelong supporter of Manchester City and due to a mixed marriage a season ticket holder of Tottenham Hotspur.