Barbara Thomas

Barbara Thomas Judge, Lady Judge, CBE (née Singer; born 28 December 1946 in New York City), known before as Barbara Singer Thomas, is an American-British lawyer and businesswoman, based in London with dual US/UK citizenship.She was the first female Chairman of the Institute of Directors, a previous Chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), the Chairman of the United Kingdom's fraud prevention service Cifas, a former Chairman of the Pension Protection Fund and a UK Business Ambassador on behalf of UK Trade & Investment. She is a trustee of several cultural and charitable institutions and a former trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts and Dementia UK. She is the widow of Sir Paul Judge and has a son from her prior marriage to Allen L. Thomas, an American lawyer. She is one of the UK's most prominent business executives, featuring in power lists compiled by Management Today, Debrett's and BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, the latter describing her as "one of the best-connected women in Britain".