Jennifer Eady

Dame Jennifer Jane Eady, DBE (born 31 May 1965) is a British High Court judge.

Education She was educated at Boston High School in Lincolnshire, gaining 9 O-levels in 1981. She worked with the Boston Playgoers theatre.

She studied politics, philosophy and economics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, completing a BA in 1986, and then earned a graduate diploma in law at the Polytechnic of Central London in 1988. She served as a recorder from 2003 to 2013, took silk in 2006, and became a senior circuit judge in 2013. She was chair of the Employment Tribunals and a part-time employment judge from 2001 until 2008, a member of the Acas Council from 2008 to 2014, and a trustee of the Free Representation Unit from 2006 to 2014. She received the customary damehood in 2019.

Personal life She is married and has one son.