Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss becomes the first female President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice.
In 2006 it was announced that she would become one of seven new life peers in the House of Lords.
In the same year Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond became the second female Justice of Appeal and the first woman Law Lord.
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Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss is the first woman appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal
