Mary Hogg

The Honourable Dame Mary Claire Hogg, DBE (born 15 January 1947) is a British lawyer and former High Court judge. She is the daughter of Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, and his wife, Mary Evelyn Martin, and is the sister of Douglas Hogg.

Educated at St Paul's Girls' School, she was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1989. In 1995, she was named a judge of the High Court of Justice where she sat in the Family Division. At the time of her appointment she was only the seventh female High Court judge.[1]

In 1995 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of law (LLD) by the University of Westminster,[2] an institution founded by her great-grandfather Quintin Hogg.

She retired from the High Court in 2016.

  1. ^ "Justice Hogg: A career in child welfare". BBC News. 18 January 1999. Retrieved 21 October 2008.
  2. ^ Williams, Lynne (19 January 1996). "Honorary degrees". Times Higher Education. TSL Education. Retrieved 21 October 2008.