James Peter Hymers Mackay,Baron Mackay of Clashfern is a British lawyer. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates,Lord Advocate,and Lord Chancellor (1987–1997). He is a former active member of the House of Lords,where he sat as a Conservative. He retired from the House on 22 July 2022.
Lady Elish Frances Angiolini is a Scottish lawyer who is a Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford and has served as the Principal of St Hugh's College,Oxford since 2012;she was a candidate in the 2024 University of Oxford Chancellor election. In June 2023,she was appointed to the office of Lord Clerk Register by King Charles III,the first woman to hold the role since its creation in the 13th century.
Alan Ferguson Rodger,Baron Rodger of Earlsferry was a Scottish academic,lawyer,and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Donald MacArthur Ross,Lord Ross,PC,FRSE is a former Lord Justice Clerk;the second most senior judge in Scotland.
James Moncreiff,1st Baron Moncreiff was a Scottish lawyer and politician.
Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald,Lord Kingsburgh,KCB,PC,PRSSA,FRS,FRSE was a Scottish Conservative Party politician and later a judge.
Charles Scott Dickson,Lord Dickson,FRSE LLD was a Scottish Unionist politician and judge.
Alexander Smith Kinnear,1st Baron Kinnear,was a Scottish advocate and judge. He served as Lord of Council and Session (1882–1913),and was appointed to the Privy Council in 1911.
Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward is a Scottish lawyer and academic,and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities. Sir David is an Honorary Fellow of University College,Oxford;Honorary Professor of the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also an Honorary Sheriff of the Sheriffdom of Tayside,Central and Fife at Perth,Scotland.
Francis Mulholland,Lord Mulholland,is a Scottish judge who has been a Senator of the College of Justice since 2016. He previously served from 2011 to 2016 as Lord Advocate,one of the Great Officers of State of Scotland and the country's chief Law Officer,and as Solicitor General,the junior Law Officer.
Stephen Errol Woolman,Lord Woolman,,is a Scottish legal academic,and a retired Senator of the College of Justice.
Robert John Reed,Baron Reed of Allermuir,is a Scottish judge who has been President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since January 2020. He was the principal judge in the Commercial Court in Scotland before being promoted to the Inner House of the Court of Session in 2008. He is an authority on human rights law in Scotland and elsewhere;he served as one of the UK's ad hoc judges at the European Court of Human Rights. He was also a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.
Colin John MacLean Sutherland,Lord Carloway PC FRSE is a Scottish advocate and judge who has served as the Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General since 2015. He was previously Lord Justice Clerk from 2012 to 2015 and has been a Senator of the College of Justice since 2000. On 4 June 2024 Lord Carloway announced his intention to retire from judicial office in early 2025.
Matthew Gerard Clarke,Lord Clarke,PC was a Senator of the College of Justice,a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland,sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session.
Paul Benedict Cullen,Lord Pentland,is a former Solicitor General for Scotland,a Senator of the College of Justice and former chairman of the Scottish Law Commission.
John Hope PC FRSE (1794–1858) was a Scottish judge and landowner.
William Donald Patrick,Lord Patrick,was a Scottish advocate who served with the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. After the war,he returned to practice law with great success,and became a judge in 1939,as a Senator of the College of Justice. After World War II,he was one of the 12 judges of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial at the end of the Second World War.
Dorothy Ruth Bain is a Scottish advocate who has served as Lord Advocate since 2021. She is the second woman to hold the office after Lady Elish Angiolini KC. Bain previously served as the Principal Advocate Depute from 2009 to 2011,the first woman to hold the prosecutorial position in Scotland.
Sarah Poyntell LaBudde Wolffe,Lady Wolffe is an American-born Scottish lawyer and judge who is currently a professor at the University of Strathclyde. She previously served as Senator of the College of Justice from 2014 to 2021. Wolffe was the first US-born member of the Scottish judiciary and the first woman appointed as a Commercial Judge in the Court of Session.
Alison Di RolloKC (née Lafferty) is a Scottish advocate who served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 2016 to 2021.
