.ltRose, QC, serves another first

The Sun,
4 January 1972
  
The first woman judge to sit at London's Old Bailey was sworn in yesterday.
  
She is 57 year old Rose Heilbron, QC, one of three part-time Recorders appointed at the Old Bailey under the nation's new system of Crown Courts.
  
Sworn  

And she will be addressed as "My Lord."
  
Miss Heilbron, married with one daughter, had already achieved two "firsts" in court work.
  
In 1956 she became the country's first woman Recorder, at Burnley, Lancs.
  
A year later she was the first woman assize Commissioner.

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