Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart

The Right Honourable The Lord Mackenzie Stuart QC
President of the European Court of Justice
In office 1984–1988
Preceded by	Josse Mertens de Wilmars
Succeeded by	Ole Due
Personal details
Spouse(s)	Anne Millar
Children	4

Alexander John Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart (18 November 1924 – 1 April 2000) was a Scottish advocate and judge. He was the first judge from a United Kingdom jurisdiction to sit on the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, later becoming its President.

Jack Mackenzie Stuart, as he was widely known, was born in Aberdeen; his father was a King's Counsel and Professor of Scots Law at Aberdeen University. Mackenzie Stuart attended Fettes College, before studying at Cambridge University.

In 1942, Mackenzie Stuart joined the British Army, becoming commissioned in Royal Engineers and went up to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on the War Office Engineering Course, followed by service, mainly building bridges, in Northern Europe. In his speech on retirement from the Court of Justice in 1988, he spoke of the indelible effect at an impressionable age of seeing the ashes of the Ruhr. After a staff post in Burma and a spell dismantling mines on the Northumbrian coast, he returned to Cambridge where he took first class honours in Part II of the Law Tripos, followed by an LL.B. with distinction at Edinburgh.

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