Dame Mary Elizabeth Stacey, (born 15 May 1961) is a British High Court judge. Stacey is the daughter of Rev Nicholas Stacey and was educated at The King's School in

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. She studied English at Keble College, Oxford and graduated with a BA in 1982. Stacey was admitted as a solicitor in 1987, becoming

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and head of equality at Thompsons in 1993 and serving in that role until 1997. She was part-time chair of the

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s from 1997 to 2003, and full-time chair and latterly an employment judge from 2003 to 2014. She was appointed a

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in 2007, a circuit judge in 2014, and deputy High Court judge in 2018. She was member of

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council from 2008 to 2014. On 1 October 2020, Stacey was appointed a judge of the High Court, replacing Sir Michael Supperstone who retired, and she was assigned to the

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. She took the customary damehood in the same year. In 2004, she married Stuart Bell and together they have two sons.

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