Linda Dobbs
Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs, DBE (born 3 January 1951) is a retired High Court judge in England and Wales, who served from 2004 to 2013.[citation needed] Dobbs was educated at Moreton Hall School, a boarding independent school for girls, near the market town of Oswestry in Shropshire, followed initially by the University of Edinburgh, where she read music but left after a year.She went on to the London School of Economics, where she obtained a master's degree, followed by a doctorate in Soviet criminology and penology.Dobbs was called to the Bar in 1981, practising from 5 King's Bench Walk, the chambers of the then Attorney-General Sir Michael Havers, QC.[10] She was later appointed as chair of an independent inquiry into Lloyds Banking Group's handling of the HBOS Reading branch fraud.