Education
Lady Cosgrove was educated at Glasgow High School for Girls, and the School of Law of the University of Glasgow, graduating Bachelor of Laws in 1966. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Glasgow in 2002.
Lady Cosgrove was educated at Glasgow High School for Girls, and the School of Law of the University of Glasgow, graduating Bachelor of Laws in 1966. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Glasgow in 2002.
She was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1968 and served as Standing Junior Counsel to the Department of Trade from 1977 to 1979, taking silk in 1991. Cosgrove served as a Sheriff in Glasgow (1979-1983) and Edinburgh (1983-1996), and as a Temporary Judge from 1992 until 1996. In 1996, she became the first woman to be appointed as a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of Scotland"s Supreme Courts, taking the judicial title, Lady Cosgrove.
In February 2003, Lady Cosgrove was appointed to the Inner House of the Court of Session and sworn of Her Majesty"s Privy Council.
Lady Cosgrove retired as a Senator of the College of Justice on 24 March 2006 shortly after her 60th birthday, however she still sits on the bench occasionally when there is a shortage of judges. Lady Cosgrove has been Deputy Chairman of the Boundary Commission for Scotland since 1997.
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She was a member of the Parole Board for Scotland from 1988 to 1991, Chairman of the Mental Welfare Commission from 1991 to 1996, and Chairman of the Expert Panel on Sex Offending from 1997 to 2001.
