Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss is the first woman appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal.
She had chaired Cleveland child abuse inquiry the year before. Until 2004 she was the highest-ranking female judge in the UK, having chaired inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed.
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Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss is the first woman appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal
