Mary Stacey

Dame Mary Elizabeth Stacey, is a British High Court judge.
Stacey is the daughter of Rev Nicholas Stacey and was educated at The [King's School, Canterbury|The King's School] in Canterbury. She studied English at Keble College, Oxford and graduated with a BA in 1982.
Stacey was admitted as a solicitor in 1987, becoming partner and head of equality at Thompsons in 1993 and serving in that role until 1997. She was part-time chair of the employment tribunals from 1997 to 2003, and full-time chair and latterly an employment judge from 2003 to 2014. She was appointed a recorder in 2007, a circuit judge in 2014, and deputy High Court judge in 2018. She was a member of the council of Goldsmiths, University of London 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 Queen's Bench Division of the [High Court of Justice of England and Wales|Queen's Bench Division]. She took the customary damehood in the same year.
In 2004, she married Stuart Bell and together they have two sons.