Lord_Chief_Justice_of_Northern_Ireland
Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Head of the judiciary of Northern Ireland
The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland[1][2] is a judge who presides over the courts of Northern Ireland and is the head of the Northern Irish judiciary.[3] The present Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland is Dame Siobhan Keegan.[4] Her counterpart in England and Wales is the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and in Scotland her equivalent is the Lord President of the Court of Session. The position was established with the creation of Northern Ireland in 1922, and was preceded by the position of Lord Chief Justice of Ireland prior to the partition of Ireland.