Jill Black, Lady Black of Derwent explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
Lady Black of Derwent
Office:Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Term Start:2 October 2017
Term End:10 January 2021
Nominator:David Lidington
Appointer:Elizabeth II
Predecessor:Lord Toulson
Successor:Lady Rose of Colmworth
Office1:Lady Justice of Appeal
Term Start1:15 June 2010
Term End1:1 October 2017
Predecessor1:Sir Nicholas Wall
Birth Date:1954 6, df=yes
Alma Mater:Trevelyan College, Durham

Jill Margaret Black, Lady Black of Derwent, (née Currie; born 1 June 1954[1]) is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Family

She is the daughter of two medical doctors, James Irvine Currie and Margaret Yvonne Currie.[2] She was educated at Penrhos College and read law at the University of Durham.[2] She married David Charles Black in 1978. They had a son and a daughter. After they were divorced in 2013, she married fellow Court of Appeal judge Sir Richard McCombe.[2]

Career

She was called to the bar in 1976 at Inner Temple. She specialised in family law and became a Queen's Counsel in 1994 and was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 1996 and a Recorder in 1999.

She was appointed to the High Court on 1 October 1999, and received the customary appointment as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She was assigned to the Family Division, and served as Family Division Liaison Judge to the Northern Circuit from 2000 to 2004. On 15 June 2010, Black became a Lady Justice of Appeal, and was appointed to the Privy Council.

In 2004, she became Chairman of the Judicial Studies Board's Family Committee. She continued in that role until her appointment to the Judicial Appointments Commission as a judicial member in 2008.[3]

It was announced on 21 July 2017 that Lady Justice Black would become the second female judge of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, after The Baroness Hale of Richmond. She took office on 2 October 2017, choosing the judicial courtesy title of Lady Black of Derwent.[4] On 30 October 2020 it was announced that Lady Black of Derwent would retire as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 10 January 2021.[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Senior Judiciary List . 17 June 2010 . 18 August 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120818090051/http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/list-of-members-of-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list . dead .
  2. 'BLACK, Rt Hon. Dame Jill (Margaret)', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 28 July 2017
  3. Web site: Commissioners . Judicial Appointments Commission . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100425005513/http://www.judicialappointments.gov.uk/about-jac/157.htm . 25 April 2010 .
  4. https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/lady-hale-appointed-next-president-of-supreme-court-alongside-three-new-justices.html Lady Hale appointed next President of Supreme Court, alongside three new Justices
  5. https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/justice-appointment-october-2020.html Selection process for Supreme Court Justice launched