New Deputy Director of the Judicial Institute

Sheriff Susan Craig has been appointed by the Lord President as the new Deputy Director of the Judicial Institute for Scotland.

Sheriff Craig will take up the post on a part-time basis from 1 September 2017, replacing Sheriff Andrew Cubie, who will return to Glasgow Sheriff Court.

Susan Craig is a sheriff of Lothian and Borders having been appointed in 2013 and a part-time sheriff since 2011.

A graduate of the University of Aberdeen, she was litigation partner with Brodies WS until 2001 and partner at Shepherd and Wedderburn until her appointment as an employment judge in 2003.

Sheriff Craig has been a member of the Advisory Council to the Judicial Institute since 2014 and is the sheriff non-executive external member on the Scottish Courts Tribunals Service People Committee.

From 2013 to 2017 she was the Lothian and Borders elected representative on the Council of the Sheriffs’ Association and is on the Board of Governors of the Dean & Cauvin Young People’s Trust. She was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 2015.