Laura Cox

Dame Laura Mary Cox, (born 8 November 1951), styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Cox, is a former English High Court judge of the Queen's Bench Division, serving from 2002 until her retirement in 2016. Before serving on the bench, she was a barrister who specialised in employment law, discrimination and human rights.

Affiliations

 * Head of Cloisters Chambers, Temple (1995–2002)
 * Chairperson of the Bar Council Sex Discrimination Committee (1995–99) and Equal Opportunities Committee (1999–2002)
 * Bencher of the Inner Temple; member of the Independent Human Rights Organization Justice (former Council member) and *Lawyers of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties), co-founder
 * Vice-President of the Institute of Employment Rights
 * Panel of Experts advising the Cambridge University Independent Review of Discrimination Legislation, panel member
 * Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary College, London University (2005)
 * Council of the University of London (2003–06), member
 * President of the Association of Women Barristers
 * United Kingdom Association of Women Judges, committee member

Judicial career
She was appointed as a Queen's Bench Division judge in the High Court on 4 November 2002, and was awarded, as customary, a damehood (DBE).