Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond

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• Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond (1945-), Justice of the Supreme Court. Sitter in 1 portrait.

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• Anita Corbin (1958-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 8 portraits.

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• 100 Pioneering Women, p. 153 Read entry

  Brenda Hale (b.1945) began her career as an assistant lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester, working part-time as a barrister. She was the first woman, and youngest person, to be appointed to the Law Commission. Among other reforms, she oversaw the introduction of the Children Act 1989, considered one of the most important pieces of legislation affecting children. Hale became Professor of Law at Manchester in 1986. In 1994, she became a High Court judge and, in 1999, she was the second woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal. She was Great Britain’s first female Law Lord, the first female justice of the Supreme Court and, as of 2017, its first female president. She has spoken publicly about the need for increased diversity in the judiciary and, when appointed to the House of Lords, the coat of arms she created bore the motto ‘Omnia Feminae Aequissimae’, meaning ‘women are equal to everything’.

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• Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Supreme Court, London)

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