Women in law: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Baroness Brenda Hale.jpg|alt=Portrait photograph of Brenda Hale|thumb|Brenda Hale was the first woman and only woman to serve as a Law Lord, and the first woman to be a Justice of the Supreme Court.]]

* [[Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond]] was the first, and only, Lord Justice of Appeal in Ordinary, and following the creation of the new Supreme Court, she became the first woman to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court. In 2017, she was appointed as the President of the Supreme Court. She was also the first woman to be appointed to the Law Commission.

* [[Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss]] was the first woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal as a Lord Justice of Appeal.