Anne Smith, Lady Smith

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The Right Honourable
Lady Smith
Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (Scotland).svg
Senator of the College of Justice
Assumed office
2001
Nominated by Henry McLeish
As First Minister
Monarch Elizabeth II
Personal details
Born Anne Mather
(1955-03-16) 16 March 1955 (age 69)
Spouse(s) David Alexander Smith
Alma mater University of Edinburgh
Profession Advocate

Anne Mather Smith, Lady Smith (born 16 March 1955) is a British lawyer, and a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.

Early life

Anne Mather was educated at Jordanhill School and Cheadle County Grammar School for Girls, before attending the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh, where she graduated with an LL.B. (Hons.). She undertook a two-year apprenticeship with Shepherd and Wedderburn WS, and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1980, taking silk in 1993.[1] She married David Alexander Smith WS in 1979.

Legal career

Smith worked as Standing Junior Counsel to the Countryside Commission, before being appointed a Temporary Sheriff from 1995 to 1999, Chairman of the Scottish Partnership on Domestic Abuse from 1998 to 2000, and as an Advocate Depute from 2000 until her appointment in 2001 as a judge of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, the Supreme Courts of Scotland, taking the judicial title, Lady Smith.

Personal life

She married David Alexander Smith, a solicitor, in 1979, with whom she has a son and a daughter. She plays piano and flute, and her other interests include aerobics, ski-ing, swimming, gardening and walking.

References

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