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Admitted 1970, Called 1972, Treasurer 2011

The Rt Hon Baroness Heather Hallett DBE

First woman to be appointed Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and first woman to chair the Bar Council

Admitted 1959, Called 1975

Dame Rosalyn Higgins GBE JSD FBA QC

First woman judge and President of the International Court of Justice

Admitted 1924, Called 1926

Daw Phar Hmee

First woman to practise as a barrister in Burma

Admitted 1923, Called 1926

Lim Beng Hong

First ethnic-Chinese and Malayan woman to be called to the English Bar

Admitted 1931, Called 1934

Dorothy Knight Dix QC

First woman to sit as Recorder for a jury trial

Admitted 1937, Called 1940, Bencher 1965

Dame Elizabeth Lane DBE

First woman High Court Judge and first woman Bencher

Admitted 1989, Called 1990

Sara Lawson KC

The first woman General Counsel of the Serious Fraud Office

Admitted 1920, Called 1922

Theodora Llewelyn Davies

First woman to be admitted to The Inner Temple

Admitted 1927, Called 1931

Gladys Ramsarran

First woman in British Guiana to qualify as a lawyer and the first Indian woman to qualify as a lawyer in the West Indies and practise in Trinidad & Tobago (1932).

Admitted 1926; Called 1930

See Chye Hong

Second woman to be called to the Hong Kong Bar

Admitted 1927, Not called

The Rt Hon The Baroness Sharp GBE

First woman Permanent Secretary

Admitted 1978, Called 1979

The Rt Hon Dame Victoria Sharp DBE

First female President of the Queen’s Bench Division