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Dame Victoria Madeleine Sharp, DBE (born 8 February 1956), styled The Rt. Hon. Dame Victoria Sharp DBE, is the President of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court in England and Wales.
She is the daughter of Lord Sharp of Grimsdyke.
Educated at North London Collegiate School and the University of Bristol, Victoria Sharp was called to the Bar, Inner Temple in 1979. She became a Recorder in 1998 and was also a made a QC in 2001.
She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), as is customary, on her appointment as a Justice of the High Court on 13 January 2009.
She was Presiding Judge of the Western Circuit from 2012 to 2013 and was appointed a Lady Justice of Appeal in 2013. She became Vice-President of the Queen's Bench Division on 1 January 2016, succeeding Sir Nigel Davis. She became President of the Queen's Bench Division from 23 June 2019. This appointment followed the retirement of Sir Brian Leveson on 22 June 2019.