Dame Julia Wendy Macur, DBE (born 17 April 1957),[1] known as The Rt Hon Lady Justice Macur, is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

Between April 2017 and December 2019, she was the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales.

[3] She was called to the bar in 1979, and was a practising barrister on the Midland and Oxford Circuit between 1979 and 2005,[1] working in Birmingham.

[6] In November 2012 she was appointed by Home Secretary Theresa May to review, the terms of the Waterhouse inquiry into the North Wales child abuse scandal, which had reported in 2000.

[7] In 2015, it was announced she would become Deputy Senior Presiding Judge from 1 January 2016 and Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2018;[8] this was brought forward to April 2017 on the appointment of Lord Justice Fulford as the Investigatory Powers Commissioner.