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After qualifying as a barrister, I completed pupillage in a leading set of chambers in Cardiff in 1979. There was only one female member of those chambers with very few other women practising anywhere in Wales, a level of representation reflected throughout the judiciary at that time.

I was born and raised in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. I was the eldest daughter of the well-respected village butcher, who pushed me to go to grammar school and from the age of 13 years old, I developed a very definite aspiration to become a solicitor.

I was called to the Bar in 2006 and since then I have been fortunate enough to have had a varied career working both at the Bar and within executive positions.

I attended my local comprehensive and read English at university before converting to law. I qualified as a barrister but spent most of my career as a solicitor. For 20 years I worked in global law firms specialising in complex cross-border finance transactions.

Anyone who met me as a child would not have thought I would have become a judge, let alone a judicial lead with the title of President.

I was appointed as a salaried judge in December 2019 after spending 20 years as a solicitor. My career path into the legal profession did not follow the traditional route.

I grew up in suburban London and attended the local comprehensive school before studying law at university, I was the first in my family to go to university.

I grew up in the West Midlands and was the first person in my family to go to university. After secondary school I was not sure what I wanted to do but it had been suggested that a law degree would keep my options open.

I grew up in South London, went to the local grammar school, and was the first person in my family ever to go to university.  I qualified as a solicitor in the late 1980s and have spent most of my career in commercial dispute resolution.

I spent the first 12 years of my career in private practice in Camden Town, becoming a partner soon after qualification and building up one of the largest specialist housing teams at the time.