Elizabeth Gloster

Dame Elizabeth Gloster, DBE (born 1949), styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Gloster, is the first appointed female judge of the Commercial Court in the United Kingdom.

Elizabeth Gloster was educated at Roedean School [cite web | title =What reduced a top woman judge to tears? | work =Mail on Sunday | publisher =Associated Newspapers Ltd | date =2004-06-22 | url =http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-307540/What-reduced-woman-judge-tears.html | accessdate =2008-08-19 ] and Girton College, Cambridge. [http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page5802.asp UK Government website re Miss Gloster's announcement] ] She was called to the Bar, Inner Temple in 1971.

Career

* Q.C. — 1989
* Bencher — 1992
* Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey — 1993
* Recorder — 1995

On May 14 2004, Miss Gloster was created a DBE on her appointment as a High Court Judge.

Private life

Gloster was divorced from Stanley Brodie QC in 2004 [cite web | last =Eden | first =Richard | title =Prime of Stan Brodie | work =Telegraph.co.uk | publisher =Telegraph Media Group Limited | date =2006-12-24 | url =http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/12/24/dp2401.xml | accessdate =2008-08-19 ] after a marriage lasting 30 years. [cite web | title =Just don't tell the White Witch, Anna | work =Mail Online | publisher =Associated Newspapers Ltd | date =2006-03-14 | url =http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-379834/Estees-son-heir-scent-new-life.html | accessdate =2008-08-19 ] She married Oliver Popplewell in 2008. [cite web | last =Rozenberg | first =Joshua| title =Brief Encounters | work =Telegraph.co.uk | publisher =Telegraph Media Group Limited | date =2008-06-04 | url =http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2056786/Brief-Encounters.html | accessdate =2008-08-19 ]

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