| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable Dame |
| Susan Glazebrook | |
| Office: | Justice of the Supreme Court |
| Term Start: | 6 August 2012 |
| Office1: | Justice of the Court of Appeal |
| Term Start1: | 24 May 2002 |
| Term End1: | 6 August 2012 |
| Office2: | Administrator of the Government |
| Monarch2: | Charles III |
| Primeminister2: | Jacinda Ardern |
| Governor-General2: | Cindy Kiro |
| Term Start2: | 18 September 2022 |
| Term End2: | 20 September 2022 |
| Successor2: | Helen Winkelmann |
| Birth Date: | 8 February 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Bowdon, Cheshire, England |
| Alma Mater: | University of Auckland University of Oxford |
Dame Susan Gwynfa Mary Glazebrook (born 8 February 1956) is a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
Born in Bowdon, Cheshire, England, on 8 February 1956, Glazebrook emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1962,[1] and she became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1978.[2] She was educated at Tauranga Girls' College, before going on to study at the University of Auckland, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts in 1975, a Master of Arts with first-class honours in history in 1978, and an LLB(Hons) in 1980.[1] She later completed a DipBus (Finance) at the same institution in 1994.[1] In 1988, Glazebrook obtained a DPhil from the University of Oxford in French legal history;[1] her doctoral thesis was titled Justice in transition: crime, criminals and criminal justice in revolutionary Rouen, 1790–1800.[3]
In 1992, Glazebrook married former New Zealand rugby union representative Greg Kane, and the couple went on to have two children together.[1]
Glazebrook worked as a junior lecturer in history at the University of Auckland in 1976, 1978 and 1979.[1] Between 1981 and 1983, she was based in Rouen, France, where she worked with a government-funded body responsible for the resettlement of refugees in France.[1] In 1984, she was a research assistant under Sir Keith Sinclair and a tutor in history at the University of Auckland.[1] She was a part-time lecturer in commercial law at Auckland from 1991 to 1994.[1]
Glazebrook joined legal firm Simpson Grierson in 1986, and became a partner in 1988.[1] [4] She was a member of various commercial boards and government advisory committees, and served as president of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, in 1998.[1]
Glazebrook was appointed a judge of the High Court of New Zealand on 14 December 2000, having served until that time as temporary judge of that court.[5] She was appointed to the Court of Appeal on 24 May 2002.[6]
On 6 August 2012, Glazebrook was appointed to the Supreme Court.[7]
Glazebrook acted as administrator of the government while the governor-general, Dame Cindy Kiro, was in Britain attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.[8]
In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, Glazebrook was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the judiciary.[9]