Sheriff Tait appointed to College of Justice

Sheriff Tait will take up appointment on 5 February 2025.

Sheriff Tait graduated with an LLB from the University of Edinburgh in 1988. She was a solicitor in private practice with Drummond Miller until 2009, specialising in family law.

She was appointed a part-time sheriff in 2006 and a full time sheriff in January 2011, initially as a floating sheriff. She sat as a resident sheriff at Perth from 2013 and at Edinburgh from 2016. She was appointed an appeal sheriff in the Sheriff Appeal Court and a temporary High Court judge in 2020.

Sheriff Tait is a member of the Jury Manual Committee and the Family Law Committee of the Scottish Civil Justice Council.