The Rt Hon the Lady Butler-Sloss, GBE, PC

The Rt Hon the Lady Butler-Sloss, GBE, PC's Biography

Forename(s)
(Ann) Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss
Sex
Female
Decorations
GBE (2005, DBE 1979), PC (1987)
Date of Birth
10/8/1933
Foretitle(s)
Baroness (Life Peer UK 2006), of Marsh Green in the County of Devon; Rt Hon Dame
Surname
BUTLER-SLOSS
Style
The Rt Hon the Lady Butler-Sloss, GBE, PC

The Rt Hon the Lady Butler-Sloss, GBE, PC's Professional Career

Career
called to the Bar Inner Temple 1955 (reader 1997, treas 1998), registrar Principal Registry Probate Div (subsequently Family Div) 1970-79, judge of the High Court of Justice (Family Div) 1979-88, a Lord Justice of Appeal 1988-99, pres Family Div 1999-2005; Parly candidate (Cons) Lambeth Vauxhall 1959; sometime vice-pres Medico-Legal Soc, memb Judicial Studies Bd 1985-89, chm Cleveland Child Abuse Inquiry 1987-88; past pres Cwlth and English Bar Assoc; former chm Security Cmmn; vice-chm Cncl KCL 1992-97, memb Cncl Wycombe Abbey Sch 1992-1997, chllr UWE 1993-, govr Merchant Taylor's Sch Moor Park; chm Advsy Cncl St Paul's Cathedral 2001-, chm Cmmn appointing the Archbishop of Canterbury 2002; pres Grandparents' Assoc, vice-pres Hospicare Exeter; visitor St Hilda's Coll Oxford, fell Sarum Coll 2004; hon fell: St Hilda's Coll Oxford, Peterhouse Cambridge 2007; Hon DLitt Loughborough Univ 1992; Hon LLD: Univ of Hull 1989, Keele Univ 1991, Univ of Bristol 1991, Univ of Exeter 1992, Brunel Univ 1992, Univ of Central England 1994, Univ of Manchester 1995, Univ of Greenwich 1999, Univ of Cambridge 2000, UAE 2001, Univ of Liverpool 2001, Univ of Ulster 2004, Open Univ, Univ of London 2004, Buckingham Univ 2006; hon memb Merchant Taylors Co 2003; hon bencher NI Inns of Court, hon memb American Law Inst; FKC 1991; Hon FRCP 1992, Hon FRCPsych 1992, Hon FRCPCH, Hon FRSM 1997

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