#OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1972, Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge to preside at the Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales).

#OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1972, Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge to preside at the Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales). It had taken 53 years after women were able to be lawyers in the UK.

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