Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Mrs Justice Stacey | |
Office: | High Court Judge King's Bench Division |
Term Start: | 1 October 2020 |
Predecessor: | Mr Justice Supperstone |
Birth Date: | 15 May 1961 |
Birth Place: | United Kingdom |
Nationality: | British |
Alma Mater: | Keble College, Oxford |
Dame Mary Elizabeth Stacey, (born 15 May 1961)[1] is a British High Court judge.
Stacey is the daughter of Rev Nicholas Stacey and was educated at The King's School in Canterbury.[2] She studied English at Keble College, Oxford and graduated with a BA in 1982.
Stacey was admitted as a solicitor in 1987, becoming partner and head of equality at Thompsons in 1993 and serving in that role until 1997. She was part-time chair of the employment tribunals from 1997 to 2003, and full-time chair and latterly an employment judge from 2003 to 2014. She was appointed a recorder in 2007, a circuit judge in 2014, and deputy High Court judge in 2018. She was member of Goldsmiths, University of London council from 2008 to 2014.[3]
On 1 October 2020, Stacey was appointed a judge of the High Court, replacing Sir Michael Supperstone who retired, and she was assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.[4] She took the customary damehood in the same year.
In 2004, she married Stuart Bell and together they have two sons.