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{{Use British English|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = Dame Victoria Sharp
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|sep=,|size=100%}}
| image = Dame Victoria Sharp (cropped).jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Sharp in 2019
| office = [[President of the King's Bench Division]]
| term_start = 23 June 2019
| term_end =
| monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Charles III]]
| predecessor = [[Sir Brian Leveson]]
| successor =
| office2 = [[Lady Justice of Appeal]]
| term_start2 = 2013
| term_end2 = 2019
| office3 = [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|Justice of the High Court
| term_start3 = 2009
| term_end3 = 2013
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|2|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_place =
| birthname = Victoria Madeleine Sharp
| nationality = British
| spouse =
| residence =
| alma_mater = [[University of Bristol]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.uk/you-and-the-judiciary/going-to-court/court-of-appeal-home/coa-biogs/|title=Biographies of the Court of Appeal judges|website=www.judiciary.uk}}</ref>
}}
'''Dame Victoria Madeleine Sharp''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|sep=,|size=100%}}, [[Privy Council
==Early life==
She is the daughter of [[Eric Sharp, Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke|The Lord Sharp of Grimsdyke]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Who's Who 2019}}</ref> Her twin brother is [[Richard Sharp (banker)|Richard Sharp]], a former [[Goldman Sachs]] banker, and former [[Chairman of the BBC]].<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last1=Bland |first1=Archie |title=Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp to be next BBC chairman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/06/former-goldman-sachs-banker-richard-sharp-to-be-next-bbc-chairman |access-date=6 January 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=6 January 2021}}</ref>
==Career==
Sharp was [[Call to the bar|called to the Bar
She was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)]], as is customary, on her appointment as a Justice of the High Court on 13 January 2009.<ref>[http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/list-of-members-of-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list England & Wales Senior Judiciary]; accessed 26 March 2014.</ref>
She was Presiding Judge of the Western Circuit from 2012 to 2013, and was appointed a [[Lady Justice of Appeal]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Appointment of the President of the Queen's Bench Division |url=https://www.judiciary.uk/announcements/appointment-of-the-president-of-the-queens-bench-division-2/ |website=Courts and Tribunals Judiciary |access-date=5 April 2019}}</ref> She became [[Vice-President of the Queen's Bench Division]] on 1 January 2016, succeeding Sir [[Nigel Davis]]. She became [[President of the Queen's Bench Division]] from 23 June 2019<ref name="auto">{{cite web |title=Press release Appointment of the President of the Queen's Bench Division: 5 April 2019 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/appointment-of-the-president-of-the-queens-bench-division-5-april-2019 |website=Prime Minister's Press Office |access-date=5 April 2019}}</ref> succeeding [[Sir Brian Leveson]].<ref name="auto"/>
In 2023, it was reported that she was on the final shortlist to become [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|Lord Chief Justice]], alongside [[Sue Carr, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill|Dame Sue Carr]], who was selected for the post.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hymas |first=Charles |date=8 June 2023 |title=First ever female Lord Chief Justice to be named |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/08/lord-chief-justice-dame-victoria-sharp-sue-carr-shortlist/ |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Sharp married a doctor; she had four children within five years. Nevertheless, she remained in full-time law practice during those years, not taking leave. "She was convinced that if she had not dedicated herself to her job as she did by rejecting any leave on the birth of any of her children, she would have been significantly disadvantaged; as she puts it, "if you were not there in Chambers, you did not receive briefs and you had no job."<ref name="University of Bristol">{{cite news |last1=Clarke |first1=David |title=Rt Hon. Lady Justice Sharp, DBE |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-degrees/hondeg14/sharp.html |access-date=6 January 2021 |work=University of Bristol |date=15 July 2014}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Lady Justices of Appeal]]
[[Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:21st-century British women judges]]
[[Category:21st-century English judges]]
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