Margaret Lockwood Satterthwaite (born 1969) is an American legal scholar serving as the special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers for the United Nations.

She has been involved in legal cases including those in Kiribati and the United Kingdom where the government was planning to overrule the judiciary.

She completed a BA in writing, Literature and Gender with a Jacob Burns Scholarship in May 1990[1] at Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research in New York.

[4] In 2013 she and Jayne C. Huckerby published their book, Gender, National Security and Counter-terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives.

[6][7] In October 2022 she was appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers by the Human Rights Council.

The list included special rappporteurs Reem Alsalem, Paula Gaviria Betancur, Tlaleng Mofokeng, Mary Lawlor, Claudia Flores and Francesca Albanese.