(Elizabeth) Ann Marguerite Curnow

(Elizabeth) Ann Marguerite Curnow (5 June 1935 – 11 May 2011) was a United Kingdom barrister and judge

Life Curnow was born to Cecil and Doris Curnow in Burbage near Hinckley in 1935. Her father was an aircraftman who died as a Japanese prisoner of war after being shot down on a flight over Java during the second world war.

She joined Gray's Inn in 1954 and was Called to the Bar in 1957. She was one of three women Called to the Bar that year. The others were Jean Southworth and Ann Goddard and they were to have similar careers. and in 2002 she prosecuted a couple who had tortured and neglected their two-year-old daughter to death. She kept a professional profile in court, but she was known for the support she gave to younger lawyers. She saw herself as a mentor, rather than seeing them as potential rivals.