She has had a varied career as an academic lawyer, law reformer, and judge. She specialised in Family and Social Welfare Law and was founding editor of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.

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Lady Hale: The only woman lawyer on the Supreme Court

Lady Hale becomes first woman to be appointed at the Law Commission

Lady Hale is the first woman to join the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Lady Hale appointed deputy president of the UK’s Supreme Court

Lady Hale is appointed first woman President of UK Supreme Court

Baroness Hale was appointed the first woman Justice of the Supreme Court