Dame Sarah Jane Asplin, DBE (born 16 September 1959) is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

[citation needed] Asplin was called to the bar (Gray's Inn) in 1984 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2002.

She was the third woman to be assigned to the Chancery Division, after Mary Arden and Sonia Proudman.

[7] In January 2019, Dame Sarah's appointment as Chair of the Church of England's Clergy Discipline Commission was announced.

[8] In 1986, Asplin married Nicholas A. Sherwin, a solicitor with Clifford Chance, who had been a contemporary at Cambridge.