District Judges

All judges are appointed by Royal Warrant upon recommendation by the Lord Chancellor.

The Bench covers seven regions: London, Midlands, North Eastern, Northern, South Eastern, Western and Wales. The region in which the judge sits is given below, along with their date of appointment.

Last updated: 1 July 2019

Name	Circuit	Date of appointment
District Judge Adams	North Eastern	13/03/2018
District Judge Afzal OBE	Midland	17/02/2017
District Judge Ahmed	South Eastern	01/08/2018
District Judge Andrews	Northern	01/08/2018
District Judge Anson	Northern	01/07/2004
District Judge Armstrong	South Eastern	16/07/2018
District Judge Ashworth	South Eastern	14/01/2008
District Judge Asokan	Midland	25/02/2002
District Judge Atkin	South Eastern	28/11/2016
District Judge Atkinson	Midland	12/06/2000
District Judge Avent	South Eastern	08/10/2003
District Judge Avis	Western	15/12/2008
District Judge Ayers	South Eastern	15/05/2000
District Judge Baddeley	North Eastern	20/04/2009
District Judge Bailey	Midland	26/03/2018
District Judge Baker	Northern	01/04/2006
District Judge Baldwin	Northern	01/05/2014
District Judge Ball	Western	06/02/2012
District Judge Barcello	Wales	05/03/2018
District Judge Barraclough	North Eastern	07/06/2004
District Judge Batchelor	North Eastern	12/04/2016
District Judge Batey	South Eastern	01/10/2014
District Judge Batten	South Eastern	23/03/2010
District Judge Beamish	South Eastern	14/05/2018
District Judge Beckley	South Eastern	03/04/2018
District Judge Caroline Bell	North Eastern	01/10/2014
District Judge Jillian Bell	South Eastern	07/05/2014
District Judge Raymon Bell	South Eastern	14/10/2011
District Judge Bellamy	North Eastern	04/04/2005
District Judge Susan Bennett	Wales	29/05/2015
District Judge Besford	North Eastern	13/12/1999
District Judge Bever	Northern	01/11/2011
District Judge Bishop	South Eastern	23/10/2007
District Judge Bland	Northern	02/02/2009
District Judge Bloom-Davis	Western	06/05/2014
District Judge Bond	Midland	06/04/2016
District Judge Bosman	South Eastern	19/05/2014
District Judge Branchflower	North Eastern	01/03/2017
District Judge Bridger	Western	03/04/2018
District Judge Bridson	Midland	10/09/2018
District Judge James Britton	Western	18/04/2016
District Judge Brooks	South Eastern	02/01/2008
District Judge Susan Brown	South Eastern	11/02/2013
District Judge Buckley-Clarke	South Eastern	11/04/2016
District Judge Bull	Midland	19/11/2007
District Judge Linda Burgess	South Eastern	08/05/2000
District Judge Burrow	Northern	07/07/2014
District Judge Bury	Northern	28/10/2011
District Judge Byass	South Eastern	03/10/2016
District Judge Cahill	North Eastern	02/03/2009
District Judge Callaghan	South Eastern	03/04/2018
District Judge Campbell	Northern	05/10/2011
District Judge Capon	South Eastern	01/10/2014
District Judge Carson	Wales	06/09/1999
District Judge Case	South Eastern	30/04/2018
District Judge Magdalen Case	Northern	17/09/2018
District Judge Charnock-Neal	North Eastern	01/07/2013
District Judge Chaudhuri	South Eastern	09/01/2008
District Judge Chesterfield	South Eastern	01/09/2003
District Judge Helen Clarke	South Eastern	12/03/2010
District Judge Paul Clarke	Northern	01/08/2014
District Judge Richard Clarke	South Eastern	18/10/2012
District Judge Coaker	Northern	11/05/2015
District Judge Coates	Wales	29/02/2016
District Judge Juliette Coffey	South Eastern	02/06/2016
District Judge Cohen	South Eastern	01/09/1998
District Judge Collins	South Eastern	02/11/2012
District Judge John Collins	Wales	04/03/2013
District Judge Colvin	Northern	03/12/2018
District Judge Comiskey	South Eastern	16/04/2018
District Judge Conway	Northern	01/03/2010
District Judge Cook	North Eastern	28/02/2017
District Judge Coonan	South Eastern	08/04/2014
District Judge Christopher Cooper	Midland	03/03/2008
District Judge Susan Cooper	South Eastern	21/01/2008
District Judge Stephanie Cope	Western	01/10/2012
District Judge Corkill	North Eastern	01/02/2010
District Judge Coulthard	North Eastern	27/10/2014
District Judge Cridge	South Eastern	26/03/2018
District Judge Crisp	Northern	02/06/2014
District Judge Crooknorth	Western	09/04/2018
District Judge Cross	South Eastern	14/04/2008
District Judge Crowley	Wales	04/02/2008
District Judge Cuddy	Northern	11/03/2019
District Judge Daniel	North Eastern	13/03/2018
District Judge Davies	Wales	26/03/2001
District Judge Andrew Davies	South Eastern	09/05/2016
District Judge Clare Davies	North Eastern	03/09/2018
District Judge Jeremy Davies	Northern	03/05/2011
District Judge Malcolm Davies	Midland	05/10/2011
District Judge Rhiannon Davies	Midland	18/04/2016
District Judge Talog Davies	Midland	03/09/2018
District Judge Davis	Western	06/10/2014
District Judge Robert Dawson	Northern	18/01/2017
District Judge Deane	Northern	24/01/2017
District Judge Desai	South Eastern	14/01/2013
District Judge Devlin	South Eastern	12/06/2006
District Judge Dhadli	Midland	03/04/2018
District Judge Dias	South Eastern	05/05/2011
District Judge Dickinson	Midland	03/04/2018
District Judge Dignan	Northern	01/05/2002
District Judge Dixon	South Eastern	19/01/2009
District Judge Dodd	Northern	01/03/2010
District Judge Dodsworth	South Eastern	01/07/2014
District Judge Doyle	Northern	12/05/2008
District Judge Duddridge	South Eastern	11/04/2016
District Judge Earl	South Eastern	16/04/2018
District Judge Eaton-Hart	Western	19/03/2018
District Judge Eldergill	South Eastern	23/03/2010
District Judge Ellery	Western	12/04/2018
District Judge Sarah Ellington	South Eastern	08/05/2018
District Judge Ellis	South Eastern	14/04/2014
District Judge England	Midland	25/02/2008
District Judge Entwistle	Northern	30/04/2018
District Judge Etherington	Midland	23/02/2016
District Judge Claire Evans	Northern	01/05/2008
District Judge Falvey	South Eastern	14/10/2011
District Judge Field	Western	05/05/2015
District Judge Fine	South Eastern	01/09/2003
District Judge Foss	South Eastern	16/06/2014
District Judge Foster	North Eastern	21/05/2018
District Judge Gailey	Midland	05/06/2000
District Judge Gamwell	Western	18/04/2011
District Judge Gardner	North Eastern	01/04/2014
District Judge Geddes	North Eastern	02/04/2014
District Judge Gibbons	South Eastern	11/04/2016
District Judge Gibson	South Eastern	09/07/2010
District Judge Judy Gibson	Midland	12/08/2013
District Judge Giddins	Western	31/07/2018
District Judge Gilbertson	South Eastern	03/11/2014
District Judge Gilham	Northern	06/02/2006
District Judge Baljinder Gill	South Eastern	02/06/2014
District Judge Glassbrook	Midland	08/05/2018
District Judge Glen	Western	18/04/2016
District Judge Goddard	Western	31/07/2000
District Judge Goldberg	North Eastern	01/09/2011
District Judge Golding	Northern	09/04/2018
District Judge Emma Goodchild	South Eastern	01/05/2014
District Judge Sarah Goodchild	Northern	11/10/2012
District Judge Gordon	Northern	24/03/2010
District Judge Grand	Western	09/01/2006
District Judge Gray	Northern	07/10/2013
District Judge Green	South Eastern	02/08/1999
District Judge Greenan	North Eastern	19/04/2016
District Judge Grey	North Eastern	04/10/2010
District Judge Griffith	Midland	01/09/2008
District Judge Richard Griffiths	Western	30/01/2017
District Judge Grosse	South Eastern	22/03/2006
District Judge (Petrina) Guinan	Wales	20/04/2009
District Judge Guite	Northern	07/06/2017
District Judge Haisley	Northern	06/08/2018
District Judge Hale	Midland	05/11/2007
District Judge Hallett	South Eastern	01/09/1999
District Judge Hammond	South Eastern	01/10/2010
District Judge Kevin Adrian Harper	South Eastern	01/07/2014
District Judge Nicola Harrison	Northern	02/11/2001
District Judge Sophie Harrison	South Eastern	15/09/2014
District Judge Hart	South Eastern	05/09/2011
District Judge Hartley	South Eastern	01/10/2018
District Judge Hassall	Northern	01/07/2010
District Judge Hatvany	Western	31/10/2016
District Judge Hay	South Eastern	01/07/2013
District Judge Hayes	Northern	06/09/2013
District Judge Richard Hayes	South Eastern	26/03/2018
District Judge Heels	North Eastern	29/03/2011
District Judge Hennessy	Northern	26/01/2017
District Judge Henry	South Eastern	05/09/2000
District Judge Henson	South Eastern	28/02/1994
District Judge Heppell	North Eastern	03/12/2013
District Judge Hesford	North Eastern	27/03/2015
District Judge Heyworth	Northern	03/07/1995
District Judge Abigail Hickinbottom	North Eastern	31/08/2018
District Judge Hickinbottom	North Eastern	04/05/1993
District Judge Sally Hickman	Midland	14/12/2010
District Judge Hill	Midland	12/03/2018
District Judge Hodges	South Eastern	02/12/2011
District Judge Holligan	Northern	23/11/2016
District Judge Holmes	Wales	14/03/2016
District Judge Andrew Holmes	South Eastern	11/04/2016
District Judge Hovington	Northern	06/07/1998
District Judge Howell	Western	22/11/2010
District Judge Hudd	South Eastern	23/11/2016
District Judge Hughan	South Eastern	05/12/2018
District Judge Hugman	Northern	17/06/2013
District Judge Alison Humphreys	South Eastern	19/10/2012
District Judge Gareth Humphreys	Wales	01/02/2013
District Judge Ingram	Midland	03/01/2006
District Judge Ireland	Western	09/04/2018
District Judge Isles	Midland	16/04/2018
District Judge Iyer	Northern	30/07/2010
District Judge Rasheeda Jabbar	Northern	06/03/2008
District Judge Claire Jackson	North Eastern	14/04/2016
District Judge Phillip Jackson	North Eastern	01/04/2006
District Judge Stephen Jackson	Northern	02/09/1999
District Judge Susan Jackson	South Eastern	14/01/2002
District Judge James	Western	07/08/2000
District Judge Hywel James	Wales	22/03/2010
District Judge Jonathan James	North Eastern	06/08/2018
District Judge Japheth	Wales	01/03/2016
District Judge Jarzabkowski	South Eastern	03/04/2018
District Judge Alan Jenkins	South Eastern	06/09/1999
District Judge Alun Jenkins	South Eastern	23/11/2016
District Judge Morgan Jenkins	Wales	15/11/2010
District Judge Tim Jenkins	South Eastern	06/07/1998
District Judge Jenkinson	Northern	04/02/2013
District Judge Johns	South Eastern	03/11/2003
District Judge Samantha Johnson	Northern	02/02/2017
District Judge Alison Jones	Northern	30/07/1999
District Judge Graham Jones	South Eastern	02/06/2015
District Judge Susan Jones	Midland	01/04/2010
District Judge Jones-Evans	Wales	25/09/2008
District Judge Josling	North Eastern	27/03/2018
District Judge Kanwar	South Eastern	06/04/2017
District Judge Keating	North Eastern	22/07/2014
District Judge Graham Keating	South Eastern	28/11/2016
District Judge Keller	Wales	01/08/2018
District Judge Emma Kelly	Midland	23/03/2015
District Judge Kelly	North Eastern	05/11/2014
District Judge Kemp	South Eastern	01/08/2003
District Judge Keyser	Midland	23/02/2016
District Judge Khan	Northern	10/11/2003
District Judge Nadeem Khan	Midland	08/11/2010
District Judge Sarah King	South Eastern	19/05/2014
District Judge Andrew King	South Eastern	21/07/2008
District Judge Knifton	Northern	13/09/2004
District Judge Kumrai	South Eastern	25/11/2011
District Judge Lambert	South Eastern	06/04/2011
District judge Lampkin	Northern	01/11/2018
District Judge Langley	South Eastern	28/02/1994
District Judge Sarah Langley	Northern	24/11/2016
District Judge Lateef	Northern	11/10/2013
District Judge Leech	Western	01/12/2014
District Judge Lethem	South Eastern	17/08/1998
District Judge Lettall	Northern	04/08/2003
District Judge Lightman	South Eastern	31/08/1999
District Judge Lindsay	North Eastern	12/04/2016
District Judge Llewellyn OBE	Wales	01/06/1998
District Judge Lloyd-Jones	Midland	05/05/2011
District Judge Lobb	North Eastern	08/03/2016
District Judge Loomba	North Eastern	12/07/1999
District Judge Loyns	Midland	02/10/2012
District Judge Lumb	Midland	01/03/2011
District Judge Lusty	South Eastern	19/10/2012
District Judge Lynch	South Eastern	04/08/2008
District Judge MacCuish	Midland	02/07/2018
District Judge Macmillan	Midland	12/01/2011
District Judge Malik	North Eastern	04/12/2006*
District Judge Manasse	Northern	03/10/2014
District Judge Manners	South Eastern	29/10/2001
District Judge Mark	North Eastern	07/06/2018
District Judge Mason CBE	Midland	29/10/2012
District Judge Matharu	Northern	01/05/2009
District Judge Matthews	South Eastern	01/02/1993
District Judge John Matthews	South Eastern	08/04/2013
District Judge Mauger	South Eastern	01/10/2014
District Judge Maughan	Midland	12/09/2005
District Judge Maunder	Western	03/12/2012
District Judge McCabe	Midland	23/04/2018
District Judge Mcculloch	South Eastern	01/11/2005
District Judge McGinty.	Midland	26/03/2018
District Judge McIlwaine	Midland	01/08/2011
District Judge McLaughlin	North Eastern	17/04/2018
District Judge Mcqueen	Midland	17/02/2012
District Judge Metcalf	Northern	06/02/2017
District Judge Mian	Midland	23/02/2016
District Judge Middleton	Western	06/09/2004
District Judge Simon Mitchell	South Eastern	01/09/1997
District Judge Andrew Mitchell	North Eastern	12/03/2018
District Judge Moan	Midland	01/05/2018
District Judge Molineaux	South Eastern	06/04/2010
District Judge Moreton	North Eastern	02/12/2014
District Judge David Morgan	Wales	06/04/2010
District Judge Mornington	Northern	10/06/1994
District Judge Mort	South Eastern	13/06/2000
District Judge Moses	South Eastern	09/04/2018
District Judge Moss	Northern	19/09/2011
District Judge Mulkis	South Eastern	08/06/2016
District Judge Murch	Midland	07/02/2017
District Judge Murphy	Northern	13/04/2016
District Judge Musgrave	Midland	01/03/2010
District Judge Muzaffer	Wales	21/01/2019
District Judge Neaves	North Eastern	19/01/2009
District Judge Newman	South Eastern	02/01/2019
District Judge Nichols	Western	06/05/2014
District Judge Nicholson	South Eastern	21/10/2004
District Judge Nicolle	Midland	07/01/2008
District Judge Nightingale	South Eastern	26/08/2008
District Judge Nisa	South Eastern	14/11/2005
District Judge Obodai	Northern	03/10/2005
District Judge O’Brien	Midland	28/03/2017
District Judge Oldroyd	Northern	29/04/2013
District Judge O’Neill	Northern	05/09/2005
District Judge Louise O’Neill	Western	21/10/2016
District Judge Osborne	Northern	16/06/1997
District Judge Owen	Wales	24/07/2016
District Judge Caroline Parker	South Eastern	02/09/2013
District Judge Maureen Parker	South Eastern	04/10/1999
District Judge Stephen Parker	Midland	03/04/2018
District Judge Tim Parker	South Eastern	13/10/2003
District Judge Suzanne Parkinson	Midland	01/10/2018
District Judge Parry	Midland	03/07/2000
District Judge Siân Parry	Wales	12/03/2018
District Judge Pema	North Eastern	14/11/2013
District Judge Phillips	Wales	03/05/2005
District Judge Terence Phillips	North Eastern	23/07/2018
District Judge Pickering	North Eastern	09/07/2018
District Judge Pickup	Midland	28/08/2018
District Judge Pigram	South Eastern	28/05/2014
District Judge Pollard	South Eastern	07/10/2005
District Judge Porter-Bryant	Wales	10/07/2017
District Judge Potts	Midland	31/03/2014
District Judge Powell	Western	02/04/2012
District Judge Pratt	Wales	03/09/2018
District Judge Prest QC	North Eastern	12/04/2016
District Judge Prevatt	South Eastern	18/04/2016
District Judge Priddis	Western	01/08/2018
District Judge Prigg	Western	11/03/2013
District Judge Raggett	South Eastern	11/04/2016
District Judge Ranson	Northern	07/06/2017
District Judge Simon Read	North Eastern	13/05/2014
District Judge Reeves	South Eastern	17/10/2011
District Judge Relph	Northern	01/09/2008
District Judge Revere	South Eastern	02/06/2016
District Judge Revitt	Midland	01/10/2018
District Judge Rich TD	Midland	22/10/2012
District Judge Richmond	Northern	01/07/2003
District Judge Riley	Midland	26/05/2016
District Judge Roberts	Wales	14/05/2018
District Judge Mark Robinson	North Eastern	04/04/2017
District Judge Rodgers	North Eastern	01/07/1998
District Judge Roebuck	North Eastern	16/10/2012
District Judge Stephen E Rogers	Northern	02/01/1996
District Judge Rollason	South Eastern	16/04/2018
District Judge Rome	Northern	04/03/2019
District Judge Rothwell	South Eastern	16/04/2018
District Judge Rouine	Midland	01/03/2012
District Judge Rowe	Western	22/05/2006
District Judge Rowland	South Eastern	30/04/2018
District Judge Russell	South Eastern	07/11/2011
District Judge Sanderson	Northern	30/03/2006
District Judge Sanghera	Midland	01/11/1999
District Judge Scannell	Wales	07/05/2014
District Judge Scott	Western	16/07/2018
District Judge Searl	North Eastern	30/04/2013
District Judge Sehdev	Midland	28/07/2000
District Judge Sendall	North Eastern	25/10/2016
District Judge Sethi	South Eastern	01/09/2003
District Judge Severn	Midland	09/04/2013
District Judge Nicola Shaw	North Eastern	03/11/2016
District Judge Shepherd	North Eastern	01/06/2013
District Judge Shorthose	Midland	01/05/2014
District Judge Simister	Northern	26/03/2018
District Judge Singleton	Western	01/06/1998
District Judge Skalskyj-Reynolds	North Eastern	23/03/2016
District Judge John Smart	South Eastern	10/07/2012
District Judge Abigail Smith	South Eastern	10/10/2011
District Judge Geoffrey Smith	South Eastern	31/03/2008
District Judge Nicola Smith	Midland	23/02/2016
District Judge Philippa Smith	South Eastern	19/10/2012
District Judge Solomon	Midland	14/11/2018
District Judge John Sparrow	Western	04/06/1996
District Judge Andrew Spencer	South Eastern	06/08/2018
District Judge Spinks	South Eastern	18/06/2018
District Judge Stamenkovich	Midland	03/08/1998
District Judge Stephenson	North Eastern	03/07/2000
District Judge Sterlini	South Eastern	02/01/2008
District Judge Stewart	Western	18/12/2006
District Judge Russell Stone	Northern	13/08/2018
District Judge Stone	South Eastern	25/02/2008
District Judge Jonathan Stone	Western	14/05/2018
District Judge Stonier	Northern	01/04/2006
District Judge Stuart	Northern	01/11/2013
District Judge Suh	South Eastern	09/05/2016
District Judge Swan	South Eastern	05/03/2007
District Judge Sweeney	South Eastern	23/11/2016
District Judge Talukdar	Northern	30/04/2018
District Judge Taskeen	Northern	26/03/2018
District Judge Christopher Taylor	Western	29/10/2018
District Judge Douglas Taylor	Western	30/01/2017
District Judge Ian Taylor	Western	01/05/2018
District Judge Marjory Taylor	Wales	01/07/2009
District Judge Penelope Taylor	Western	04/05/2010
District Judge Temple	North Eastern	08/04/2014
District Judge Clive Thomas	South Eastern	04/06/2018
District Judge Kate Thomas	Midland	05/03/2018
District Judge Mark Thomas	North Eastern	20/03/2018
District Judge Thompson	North Eastern	03/11/2003
District Judge Thomson	North Eastern	21/10/2014
District Judge Trigg	South Eastern	01/07/2008
District Judge Troy	North Eastern	03/10/2011
District Judge Vernon	Wales	16/04/2018
District Judge Wakem	South Eastern	07/09/2004
District Judge Wall	Midland	01/09/2005
District Judge Wallace	Northern	01/09/1999
District Judge Walsh	Western	12/11/2018
District Judge Waring	South Eastern	05/11/2018
District Judge Watkins	Western	02/06/2008
District Judge Brian Watson	Western	08/11/2005
District Judge Paul Watson	Midland	14/04/2009
District Judge Webb	Midland	03/05/2016
District Judge Wheeler	Northern	01/03/2006
District Judge White	South Eastern	02/10/2008
District Judge Whiteley	Western	04/04/2018
District Judge Whybrow	North Eastern	13/06/2012
District Judge Caroline Wilkinson	South Eastern	14/04/2010
District Judge Anna Williams	South Eastern	28/11/2016
District Judge David Williams	Western	30/04/2012
District Judge Wilson	Western	05/07/1999
District Judge Wilson-Williams	South Eastern	09/04/2018
District Judge Wood	North Eastern	30/06/1997
District Judge Woodhead	North Eastern	01/04/2006
District Judge Woodward	Northern	03/04/2018
District Judge Woosnam	Northern	12/05/2015
District Judge Worthington	South Eastern	13/09/1999
District Judge Fay Wright	North Eastern	06/07/2015
District Judge Barbara Wright	South Eastern	20/05/2013
District Judge Martin Wright	South Eastern	17/10/2011
District Judge Sarah Wright	South Eastern	14/05/2018
District Judge Deborah Wylie	Midland	11/04/2016
District Judge Wylie	Northern	23/02/2016

^{*District Judge Malik was first appointed as a DJ at the Principal Registry of the Family Division on 4th December 2006. He was subsequently appointed a District Judge in accordance with the County Courts Act 1984,with effect from 4th March 2013}