Ellice Eadie

Ellice Aylmer Eadie CBE (née Hearn; 30 June 1912 – 31 March 2001) was an Irish-born English barrister and civil servant.

She drafted laws and rules for the Supreme Court and was the first woman Standing Counsel to the General Synod of the Church of England.

Eadie also was second in criminal law and procedure and put into the first class (second in Order of Merit) of the final bar examinations, earning the three-year Lord Justice Holker senior scholarship.

Eadie left the WAAF as a flight officer in 1946 and joined the Board of Trade's solicitor's department that same year.

[2] She drafted the Family Law Reform Act 1969, which lowered the age of majority from 21 to 18, introduced blood testing to establish disputed paternity.

Eadie moved to the Flowerdown Nursing Home, Winchester due to frailness in her final years, and died there from bronchopneumonia and cerebrovascular disease on 31 March 2001.