Brenda Marjorie Hale Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE QC PC FBA (Hon) (born 31 January 1945) is a British legal academic barrister judge and Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.In 2004 she joined the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. She was the only woman ever to have been appointed to this position. She served as a Law Lord until 2009 when she along with the other Law Lords transferred to the new Supreme Court.