Hon. Judge Karen Ramagge GMH MP

The Hon. Judge Karen Ramagge Phillips GMH MP became Speaker of the Gibraltar Parliament on 10 November 2023. 

She read law at the University of Bristol and was called to the Bar of England and Wales and Gibraltar in 1988. She later served as Crown Counsel, specialising in criminal law and money laundering. Later establishing her own practice in 1994.

In 1999 she became a CEDR Accredited Mediator and was appointed Chairwoman of the Industrial Tribunal and in 2005 was appointed to the Medical Review Tribunal.

In 2007 having completed a course of study and examinations in the UK, she was appointed a Notary Public.

Later in 2007 Judge Ramagge Phillips was appointed Stipendiary Magistrate and His Majesty's Coroner for Gibraltar. In her capacity as Magistrate, she presided in the family, juvenile and criminal jurisdictions of the Magistrates' Court. In her capacity as Coroner she was responsible for determining the medical cause and circumstances surrounding sudden deaths, through Inquests and the investigation leading up to them.

On 23 February 2010 she was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar and specialised in sexual offences. Her work as a High Court Judge also extended to the family and commercial divisions where she presided over a wide variety of cases. 

On 28 November 2017 Speaker Ramagge Phillips was made a Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

In 2019 she was awarded the Gibraltar Medallion of Honour.

In 2026 Speaker Ramagge Phillips launched Gibraltar's first Youth Parliament in an effort to make non-partisan politics accessible and attractive to the youth of Gibraltar.

Madam Speaker is the first Gibraltarian woman to be appointed Notary Public, Stipendiary Magistrate, Coroner, a Bencher of Middle Temple, Supreme Court Judge and Speaker.