SHERIFF SUSAN CRAIG

Sheriff Craig is the Interim Director of the Judicial Institute for Scotland.

A graduate of the University of Aberdeen, she was litigation partner with Brodies WS until 2001 and partner at Shepherd and Wedderburn until her appointment as an employment judge in 2003. 

She was appointed as a part-time sheriff in 2011; as a sheriff of Lothian and Borders in 2013; admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 2015 and appointed Deputy Director of the Judicial Institute for Scotland in 2017.

She was a member of the Advisory Council to the Judicial Institute from 2014 and is the sheriff non-executive external member on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service People Committee. From 2013 to 2017 she was the Lothian and Borders elected representative on the Council of the Sheriffs’ Association and is on the Board of Governors of the Dean & Cauvin Young People’s Trust.