Dame Sarah Mary Morgan, (born 17 September 1964) is a British barrister and High Court Judge. Morgan was born in Wales, the daughter of a teacher and a civil engineer. She spent some of her early childhood living in the Caribbean before her family returned to the UK and settled in the Midlands, where she attended

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. Morgan studied law at

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, graduating in 1987. She was called to the Bar at

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in 1988. Morgan was appointed a Recorder sitting in the criminal and family courts on the South Eastern circuit in 2009 and was appointed a

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in 2011. In 2019, she was appointed as a deputy High Court Judge. On 11 January 2022, Morgan was appointed a judge of the Family Division of the High Court following several retirements and elevations to the

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. She received the customary

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hood in 2023. Prior to being appointed to the judiciary, Morgan practised from 1GC Family Law in London where she specialised in Family Law, particularly relating to children.

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