She was the principal legal advisor to the director of public prosecutions from 2009 to 2014, working under Keir Starmer, and served as a circuit judge from 2021 to 2024.
[4] Levitt attended the City of London School for Girls and studied at the University of St Andrews, where she gained a Scottish Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1986.
Her private practice as a barrister in London focused on murder, rape, fraud, and other areas of serious crime.
She conducted the Crown Prosecution Service's review of its handling of allegations made in the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal.
[5] After leaving the post in 2014, Levitt became a partner at the law firm Mishcon de Reya, establishing and heading its group on white-collar crime.