Rose Heilbron
(1914-2005)
British judge
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Dame Rose Heilbron DBE (19 August 1914 – 8 December 2005) was a High Court judge, previously a barrister of the post-war period in the United Kingdom. Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first class honours degree in law at the University of Liverpool, the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn, one of the first two women to be appointed King's Counsel in England, the first woman to lead in a murder case, the first woman recorder, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey, and the first woman treasurer of Gray's Inn. She was also the second woman to be appointed a High Court judge, after Elizabeth Lane.
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19 August 1914 Liverpool
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8 December 2005 (aged 91) Islington
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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