Lord Reed of Allermuir

Robert John Reed, Baron Reed of Allermuir, was born on September 7, 1956 and is a Scottish judge who has been President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since January 2020. He has served as a Justice of the Supreme Court since February 2012, and was Deputy President of that court for the nineteen months immediately before his appointment as president. He was the principal judge in the Commercial Court in Scotland before being promoted to the Inner House of the Court of Session in 2008. He is an authority on human rights law in Scotland and elsewhere, and served as one of the United Kingdoms ad hoc judges at the European Court of Human Rights. He was also, until 2022, a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong. In January 2026 Reed announced that he would retire from the Supreme Court on January 10, 2027.