Kathleen Anne Marshall (born 4 June 1953) is a British solicitor and legal scholar, specialising in child law.
From 1989 to 1994, she was director of the Scottish Child Law Centre.
[1] She has been involved in a number of inquiries into child abuse: she chaired the Edinburgh Inquiry into Abuse and Protection of Children in Care (report produced in 1999) and she chaired the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Northern Ireland (report produced in 2014).
[4] After graduating from university in 1973, Marshall became a legal apprentice.
[4] She then took a break from her career to have children, and was a full-time mother between 1977 and 1989.