Mrs Justice Proudman, was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
Proudman was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
She was a Deputy High Court Judge from 2001 to 2008, until she was appointed to the Chancery Division on a full-time basis.
She was the second woman assigned to the Chancery Division, after Mary Arden.
Proudman was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008.