Lady Haldane has recently been appointed as Chair to the Council's Personal Injury Committee. 

Her Ladyship was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Courts in February, 2021.

She graduated with a law degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1987, and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1996. She was appointed as a Queen’s Counsel in 2010.

She was appointed by the Advocate General for Scotland as Standing Junior Counsel firstly to the Forestry Commission in 2001, and then to the Home Office (2008-2011). Between 2010 and 2016 she served as an ad hoc advocate depute with the Crown Office.