{{Short description|British judge (1949–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Dame Sonia Rosemary Susan Proudman''', DBE (30 July 1949 – 22 July 2023), styled '''The Hon. Mrs Justice Proudman''', was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
==Education== Proudman was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/Alumni/Prominent-alumni.aspx | title=LMH, Oxford - Prominent Alumni|accessdate=22 May 2015}}</ref> She was one of the first female winners of the Eldon Scholarship.<ref name=OU>{{cite web|url=https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/admissions/scholarships/further-funding-studying-career-bar/eldon-scholarship-award-holders-1919|title=Eldon Scholarship Award Holders since 1919|date=16 September 2015|publisher=Oxford University|accessdate=3 October 2017}}</ref>
==Career== Proudman was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn in 1972. She became a Bencher in 1996 and a Recorder in 2000. She was a Deputy High Court Judge from 2001 to 2008, until she was appointed to the Chancery Division on a full-time basis. She was the second woman assigned to the Chancery Division, after Mary Arden.
Proudman was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008.
Proudman retired from the bench on 2 October 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/announcements/high-court-retirement-of-the-honourable-dame-sonia-rosemary-susan-proudman-dbe/ |title=Courts and Tribunals Judiciary {{!}} High Court: Retirement of The Honourable Dame Sonia Rosemary Susan Proudman DBE |website=www.judiciary.gov.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210071700/https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/announcements/high-court-retirement-of-the-honourable-dame-sonia-rosemary-susan-proudman-dbe/ |archive-date=2017-12-10}}</ref>
==Death== Sonia Proudman died on 22 July 2023, at the age of 73.<ref>{{cite web |title=We regret to inform you of the passing of Dame Sonia Proudman DBE |url=https://radcliffechambers.com/we-regret-to-inform-you-of-the-passing-of-dame-sonia-proudman-dbe/ |website=Radcliffe Chambers |access-date=27 July 2023 |date=25 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Dame Sonia Cartwright (née Proudman) |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-august-4-2023-nvtbgfkj0 |access-date=6 August 2023 |work=The Times |date=4 August 2023}}</ref>
==Arms== Proudman obtained a grant of arms in 2009. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/news-grants/newsletter/2009/item/30-october-2009|title = October 2009 Newsletter (No. 22) - College of Arms}}</ref> {{Infobox COA wide |image = Proudman Lozenge.png |escutcheon = Gules a Cross voided throughout Or surmounted by a Peacock in his pride proper perched upon a Cartwheel Argent. |motto = Auctoritate Paulisper Ornatus }}
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331050206/http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page17290 Notice of knighthood] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110727035526/http://www.lmh-alumni.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?&pid=503&srcid=205 Biodata]
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