The Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, PC

Deputy President of the Supreme Court

The most senior female judge in the UK, Baroness Hale is deputy president of the Supreme Court. Hale was called to the Bar in 1969, scoring highest in the bar finals, and subsequently became the youngest person in history to be appointed to the Law Commission. Hale believes that the lower courts should abandon ‘silly wigs’ and has criticised the judicial appointments system for selecting primarily white men boasting similar academic and economic backgrounds. She was born in Yorkshire and studied at Cambridge, initially following her teacher parents’ footsteps by becoming a lecturer at the University of Manchester. Despite her success, she admits she sometimes suffers from impostor syndrome and that her greatest fear is ‘being found out’.

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