Honourable Justice Susan Glazebrook

Justice Susan Glazebrook is a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand/Te Kōti Mana Nui and was the President of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) from 2021 to 2023. Before being appointed to the Bench, Justice Glazebrook was a partner in a large commercial law firm and a member of various commercial boards and government advisory committees. She also served as the President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association in 1998. Since becoming a judge, Justice Glazebrook has served as a member of the Advisory Council of Jurists for the Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (from 2002 to 2010) and chaired the Institute of Judicial Studies/Te Kura Kaiwhakawā, the body responsible for judicial education in New Zealand, from 2007 to 2012. 

Justice Glazebrook is a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Auckland/Waipapa Taumata Rau, a Distinguished Fellow of Victoria University of Wellington Law School/Te Herenga Waka - Te Kauhanganui Tātai Ture and an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple. In 2014 Justice Glazebrook was made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the judiciary.