Dame Bobbie Cheema-Grubb Biography

Published 9th June 2020

Dame Bobbie Cheema-Grubb is a judge of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court. She is the first Asian woman to serve as a High Court judge in the United Kingdom.

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