Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond

Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, PC, FBA (born 31 January 1945) is a British Judge who served as Chief Justice of the United Kingdom from 2017 until her retirement in 2020.

Brenda Marjorie Hale entered the Senate in 2004 as a senator. She is the only woman appointed to this position. She held the position of Attorney General until 2009 when she moved to the new Supreme Court along with other legal circles under the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005. She served as a Supreme Court Justice from 2013 to 2017.

On September 5, 2017, Hale was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, chaired by Theresa May, taking office on October 2, 2017. She was the first woman and third person to take on this role. Hale is one of four women appointed to the Supreme Court along with Lady Black, Lady Arden and Lady Rose.

Hale has served as a Non-Executive Judge of Hong Kong's Last Court of Appeal since July 30, 2018. In June 2021, citing the impact of the controversial Hong Kong National Security Law, she announced that after her July term ended, she had decided not to serve a second term in a Hong Kong court. She will become the first high-ranking British judge to leave Hong Kong's Supreme Court after the security law goes into effect in June 2020.

Hale has been appointed Professor of Law at University College London in 2019. Hale has also served as Honorary President of the University of Cambridge Law Society since 2015.
On 11 January 2020, Lady Hale was succeeded by Lord Reed as Chief Justice.

Famous As: Former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Birthdate: January 31, 1945
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Leeds, England