Prior to her appointment as Senator, she was a Judge of the UK Upper Tribunal, Administrative Appeals Chamber.
In 2014 she was appointed as a part-time UK First tier Tribunal Judge in the Social Entitlement Chamber which she combined with practice at the bar.
Lady Poole previously worked at the universities of Dundee and Edinburgh as a research assistant and a tutor respectively.
Lady Poole was formally installed as a Senator of the College of Justice at a ceremony in Parliament House on 10 January 2020.
[7] She is a co-author of a book on judicial review with Sheriff Frances McCartney and Sheriff Lorna Drummond (A Practical Guide to Public Law Litigation in Scotland Drummond, McCartney and Poole, 2019[8]) and is a contributor to Court of Session Practice edited by Lord Donald MacFadyen.