The Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden, DBE

Judge of the Court of Appeal

Born in Liverpool, Mary Arden became the Chancery Division’s first female High Court judge in 1993 and only the third female judge of the Court of Appeal when she was appointed in 2000. A Kennedy Scholar at Harvard, Arden worked in company law at the beginning of her career, becoming a QC in 1986. She is head of International Judicial Relations in England and Wales, and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. Arden is married to Lord Mance, a Supreme Court judge, and they were the first married couple to serve in the Court of Appeal at the same time.

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