Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss

The Baroness Butler-Sloss
President of the Family Division
In office
1999 – April 2005
Succeeded bySir Mark Potter
Lord Justice of Appeal
In office
1988–1999
Justice of the High Court
In office
1979–1988
Personal details
Born
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Havers

(1933-08-10) 10 August 1933 (age 91)[1]
Buckinghamshire, England
Political partyNone (crossbencher)
Other political
affiliations
Conservative Party (1950s)
Spouse
Joseph William Alexander Butler-Sloss
(m. 1958)
Relations
Children3
Parent
Residence(s)East Devon, Devon, England

Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, GBE, PC (née Havers; born 10 August 1933) is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom until 2004, when Baroness Hale was appointed to the House of Lords. Until June 2007, she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed. She stood down from that task with effect from that date, and the inquest was conducted by Lord Justice Scott Baker.

  1. ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 617. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.