Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE PC QC FBA |
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Baroness Hale in 2008
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| Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom |
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Assumed office 28 June 2013 |
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| Preceded by | The Lord Hope of Craighead |
| Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
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In office 1 October 2009 – 27 June 2013 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
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In office 12 January 2004 – 30 September 2009 |
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| Preceded by | The Lord Millett |
| Succeeded by | Position eliminated |
| Lady Justice of Appeal | |
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In office 1999–2003 |
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| High Court Judge Family Division |
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In office 1994–1999 |
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| Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
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Brenda Marjorie Hale 31 January 1945 Yorkshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
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| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
| Profession | Barrister |
Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE PC QC FBA (born 31 January 1945) is an English judge and the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
In 2004, she joined the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. She is the only woman to have been appointed to this position. She served as a Law Lord until 2009 when she, along with the other Law Lords, transferred to the new Supreme Court.
Born in Yorkshire, England in 1945, Lady Hale is one of three daughters. Both of her parents became headteachers. She was educated in Richmond at the Richmond High School for Girls (now part of Richmond School) and later studied at Girton College, Cambridge, where she read Law and graduated with a starred first and top of her class. After becoming assistant lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester, she was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1969, topping the list in the bar finals for that year.
Working part-time as a barrister, Hale spent eighteen years mostly in academia, finally becoming Professor of Law at Manchester in 1986. Two years earlier, she had achieved the distinction of becoming the first woman and youngest person ever to be appointed to the Law Commission, overseeing a number of important reforms in family law during her nine years with the Commission. In 1989, she was made a Queen's Counsel.
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