Heather Hallett, Baroness Hallett

Heather Carol Hallett, Baroness Hallett,, is a retired British judge of the Court of Appeal and a crossbench life peer. The first woman to chair the Bar Council and the fifth woman to sit in the Court of Appeal, Hallett led the independent inquest into the 7/7 bombings. In April 2019, she was appointed Chair of the Security Vettings Appeal Panel. In December 2021, she was announced as the chair of the public inquiry into the UK Government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. On 29 June 2022, the Government accepted Baroness Hallett's proposed terms of reference for the inquiry, with minor changes suggested by the devolved administrations.

16 December 1949

Born on the same birth date (16 December 1949): Billy Gibbons

Born on the same birth day (16 December): Alexander Lebedev • Amy Carmichael • Anna Sedokova • Danish Kaneria • Hristo Tatarchev • Jane Austen • Kent Hehr • Mats Hummels • Max Linder • Mike Flanagan (baseball) • Noël Coward • Paul Leyden • Sam Most • Stuart Donaldson • Themba Mnguni

Born in the same month (December 1949): Claudia Kolb • David Topliss • Don Johnson • Ellen Datlow • Jock Stirrup • John Altman (composer) • José Ramos-Horta • Lenny White • Linda Barnes (writer) • Linda Creed • Pablo Escobar • Peter Willey • Reinhold Weege • Robert Sternberg • Robin Gibb • Sebastian (singer) • Sebastián Piñera • Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira • Sissy Spacek • Susan Shwartz • Tom Waits