Rose Heilbron is the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England in 1972. This was just one of her many firsts as a British journalist.
Heilbron was also a High Court judge, previously a barrister after World War 2 in the United Kingdom.
Rose Heilbron Firsts
Her career included many “firsts” for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first class honours degree in law at the University of Liverpool, the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray’s Inn, one of the first two women to be appointed King’s Counsel in England, the first woman to lead in a murder case, the first woman recorder, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey, and the first woman treasurer of Gray’s Inn.
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