HHJ Anuja Ravindra Dhir QC
Judge
The Central Criminal Court
Anuja is the first non- white judge to be appointed to the Old Bailey. She was born in Dundee in Scotland, was called to the bar in 1989, was made a bencher of Grays Inn in 2009 and was appointed as a QC in 2010.
Before being appointed as a judge in 2012, she practiced at the bar in crime and public law.
Over the last 23 years Anuja has been at the forefront of teaching and mentoring projects in the UK and abroad. She is a governor of the City Academy, Hackney and the Habadasher Borough Academy. She has been involved in a range of outreach projects and is the current Master of Outreach for Grays Inn.
She is also a judicial tutor for the Judicial College and sits on the advisory board for the LSO.
In 2018, Anuja was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dundee University. In the same year, she was appointed as a Commissioner on the Judicial Appointments Commission, an independent commission that selects Judges in England and Wales.