Rosemary Riddell is an actor, film director and Family Court judge from New Zealand.
She began her career working in broadcasting and public relations, then went overseas and met her husband Mike Riddell in London.
After their three children had started school, Riddell enrolled to study law at university, and was admitted to the bar in 1992.
[2] She worked in family law for Gaze Burt in Auckland, and in 1997 she moved to Dunedin to join Gallaway Haggitt Sinclair.
[2][3] She was appointed a Family Court judge in 2006,[4][3] and sat in Hamilton for 12 years before retiring, after which she wrote the book To Be Fair: Confessions of a District Court Judge.