| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb | |
| Office: | Justice of the High Court |
| Term Start: | 25 November 2015 |
| Predecessor: | Sir Kenneth Parker |
| Birthname: | Parmjit-kaur Cheema |
| Birth Date: | 6 October 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Yorkshire, UK |
| Nationality: | British |
| Education: | City of Leeds School King's College London |
| Children: | 3 |
Dame Parmjit Kaur "Bobbie" Cheema-Grubb, (; born 6 October 1966), styled Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, is a judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.[1] [2] She is the first Asian woman to serve as a High Court judge in the United Kingdom.
Parmjit-kaur Cheema was born in 1966 to Sikh Punjabi parents who emigrated from India to Great Britain in the 1960s.[3] She grew up in Yorkshire, and attended City of Leeds School before reading law at King's College London.[4] [5]
Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1989,[6] [7] Cheema-Grubb, in 2006, became the first Asian woman to be appointed a Junior Treasury Counsel.[4] In 2007, she was promoted Recorder.
In 2013, Cheema-Grubb took silk (QC)[6] serving as Senior Treasury Counsel before receiving authorisation to sit as a deputy High Court judge.[6] She chaired an Advocacy Training Council working group which produced the report "Raising the Bar: The Handling of Vulnerable Witnesses, Victims and Defendants in Court".[8]
Cheema-Grubb successfully acted for the prosecution against retired Anglican Bishop Peter Ball for sexual abuse[9] and against barrister and Recorder Constance Briscoe for perverting the course of justice.[10]
Appointed as a High Court judge on 22 October 2015,[6] Cheema-Grubb was sworn in to the Queen's Bench on 25 November 2015,[5] receiving the customary accolade of the Realm as DBE.[11]
In 1990, she married Russell Grubb and they have three children.[12]
Dame Bobbie and her family are practising Christians.[13]