• Dame Linda Dobbs

    In October 2004, Dame Linda Dobbs DBE became the first non-white high court judge in the UK, having been appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2003. She joins First [...]

  • Dame Nicola Davies

    Dame Nicola Davies was the first Welsh female Court of Appeal Judge when she was appointed in October 2018. In 1992, Nicola became the first female Welsh QC, having [...]

  • Dame Rosalyn Higgins GBE KC

    Dame Rosalyn Higgins GBE KC is a former President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). She was the first female judge elected to the ICJ, and was elected [...]

  • Dame Vera Baird

    Dame Vera Baird QC is currently the Victims' Commissioner for England & Wales, responsible for promoting the interests of victims and witnesses of crime. She previously served as a [...]

  • Dan Fitz, BT on women in law

    Dan Fitz in the Red Chair on the value women add to a firm when they return to work after having children.

  • Dana Denis Smith, Founder of the First 100 Years

    The Founder of the First 100 Years project, Dana Denis-Smith, shares her personal story and her journey from Transylvania, in Romania, to being a journalist, City lawyer, woman in [...]

  • Dawn Martin

    Dawn Martin discusses the importance of women supporting each other with the First 100 Years team on the Red Chair.

  • Diana Parker

    Diana Parker is a renowned divorce lawyer and partner at Withers Worldwide. She was the youngest and first female senior partner of a city firm. [...]

  • Dorothy Livingston

    An exclusive interview with Dorothy Livingston, the original inspiration behind the First 100 Years project. She was the first female partner of what was then Herbert Smith. She was [...]

  • Dr Emilia Onyema, SOAS

    Dr Emilia Onyema at the Association of Women Solicitors Summer Drinks 2017

  • Eleanor Sharpston QC

    Eleanor Sharpston QC has combined a career in practise at the Bar (specialising in European Union and ECHR Law) with an academic career first at UCL and then in Cambridge [...]

  • Eleri Rees

    Her Honour Eleri Rees is a Welsh judge. In 2012 she was appointed the Resident Judge of Cardiff Crown Court and Recorder of Cardiff, the first woman to hold [...]

  • Elizabeth Johnson

    Elizabeth Johnson is the first female Chartered Legal Executive to be appointed a judge. Elizabeth was appointed as a Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal on 25 January 2019. [...]

  • Eunice Shang-Simpson, on the life a prosecutor

    Eunice Shang-Simpson for First 100 Years

  • Fiona Woolf

    An exclusive interview with Dame Fiona Woolf for First 100 Years. Fiona is a British corporate lawyer, and served as Lord Mayor of London 2013-2014, the second woman in [...]