Sarah Lee was appointed to the Judicial Appointments Commission as a professional (solicitor) member on 9 April 2018 and reappointed on 9 April 2021.Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 1990. She was appointed as a partner of Slaughter and May in 1999 and was Head of the Dispute Resolution Group and sat on the firm’s Partnership Board until May 2020; she retired as a partner in December 2020.Her practice covered all aspects of major commercial disputes, often involving multiple jurisdictions.Sarah is an accredited CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Accreditation) mediator, and is a Governor of the Cripplgate Foundation.Sarah became a Non-Executive Director of the Financial Ombudsman Service in January 2021.
