Dame Gwynneth Frances Dietlinde Knowles
DBE (born 11 July 1962), styled Mrs Justice Knowles is a British
High Court judge of the Family Division.
Born in
Oxford, Knowles attended
Southill Sixth Form College.
She was called to the bar in 1993 and was appointed
King's Counsel
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in 2011. She previously worked for Atlantic Chambers in
Liverpool.
She is fluent in German.
In 2007, she was appointed as a fee-paid
Tribunal Judge for the First-tier Tribunal, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber.
In 2017, she was appointed as a
High Court judge and assigned to the Family Division.
She received the customary
dame
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hood from
Elizabeth II in the same year.
References
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1962 births
Living people
Family Division judges
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire