| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Mrs Justice Smith | |
| Office: | Justice of the High Court |
| Term Start: | 15 February 2021 |
| Birth Date: | 27 April 1968 |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | Christ Church, Oxford |
Dame Joanna Angela Smith, (born 27 April 1968), styled Mrs Justice Smith, is a British High Court judge.[1]
Smith was born in London, England in 1968 and educated at King's Ely. She attended Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1986, and graduated with a first-class MA in jurisprudence.[2]
She was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1990, practising commercial, professional negligence and construction law from Cornerstone Chambers and Wilberforce Chambers.[3] [4] Smith took silk in 2009 and was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2017. As a practitioner, she appeared in the 2015 Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi case before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Prior to her full-time judicial appointment, she took appointments as an arbitrator.[5]
On 15 February 2021, Smith was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Chancery Division.[6] [7] She received the customary damehood in 2020.
In 1994, she married Mark Vanhegan (a fellow KC) and together they have two daughters.