Heilbron, Rose

1914 - 2005

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Practiced on the Northern Circuit (1939-1972)
Recorder (1956-?)
Judge at the Old Bailey (1972-?)
Leader of the Northern Circuit (1973-1974)
High Court judge in the Family Division (1973-1988)
Presiding judge on the Northern Circuit (1979-1982)
Treasurer of Gray's Inn (1985) Woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn (1936)
Woman to be appointed to the Queen's Counsel (also known as "taking silk") (1949)
Women king's counsel with Helena Normanton (1949)
Woman to lead in an English murder trial (1949)
Woman to plead a case in the House of Lords
Woman to be appointed Recorder in England (1956)
Woman to sit as a Commissioner of Assize (1957)
Woman to preside as judge at the Old Bailey, or the Central Criminal Court (1972)
Female leader of the Northern Circuit (1973)
Woman treasurer of Gray's Inn (1985) Awarded the Lord Justice Holker scholarship at Gray's Inn (1936)
Honorary colonel of the East Lancs Battalion of the Wrac
Honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (1976)