Professor Nicola Margaret Padfield KC (hon) (née Helme; born 16 May 1955) is a British barrister and academic.
[3] In addition to her academic work, she was a Recorder of the Crown Court from 2002 to 2014, and is a Bencher of the Middle Temple.
[4] On 31 October 2002, she was appointed a Recorder (a part-time judge)[9] She sat in the South Eastern Circuit and the Crown Court until 2014.
In March 2013, Padfield was announced as the next Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, in succession to Robert Lethbridge.
[6] Nicola Padfield's hobbies include riding tandem bicycle, her husband being her long-time partner in this pastime.