Catherine Howells, a former head girl at Greenhill School, Tenby, has recently been appointed, by The Queen, to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable David Lidington MP and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon.

Catherine, who was called to the Bar in 1989, will be based at Wrexham Civil and Family Court with effect from January 22 and will be known as Her Honour Judge Howells.