Sonia Proudman
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Dame Sonia Rosemary Susan Proudman, DBE (30 July 1949 – 22 July 2023), styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Proudman, was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
Proudman was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.[1] She was one of the first female winners of the Eldon Scholarship.[2]
Career
Proudman was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn in 1972. She became a Bencher in 1996 and a Recorder in 2000. She was a Deputy High Court Judge from 2001 to 2008, until she was appointed to the Chancery Division on a full-time basis. She was the second woman assigned to the Chancery Division, after Mary Arden.
Proudman was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008.
Proudman retired from the bench on 2 October 2017.[3]
