Since 18 June 2012, she has been the Resident Judge of Cardiff Crown Court and Recorder of Cardiff.
She has been a circuit judge since 2002.
She was called to the bar in 1975, and served as a Justices' clerk from 1983 to 1994 and as a stipendiary magistrate (later renamed District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)) between 1994 and 2002.