Former Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal (2019-2024)
Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption, became a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal in 2019.
Lord Sumption was born in the United Kingdom in 1948. After reading history at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served for four years as a history Fellow of the College. He was called to the English Bar (Inner Temple) in 1975 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1986.
Lord Sumption was appointed as a Deputy Judge of the High Court in 1992 and served as a Recorder of the Crown Court between 1993 and 2001 in the United Kingdom. He was also a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey from 1995 to 2011.
Lord Sumption was appointed directly from the Bar to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in 2012, where he served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom until 2018.
Lord Sumption was a Judicial Appointments Commissioner for England from 2006 to 2011. He is also an accomplished historian.