Appointments and Awards

DOCTORATE IN ARTS FROM COVENTRY UNIVERSITY JULY 2025

LIFETIME ACHEIVEMENT AWARD HACSA JUNE 2025

Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn
December 2021

Honorary Fellow Somerville College, Oxford University

Honorary Fellow Libraries Association CILIP

Power List 2022:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/black-powerlist-2022-lead-microsofts-25218098
October 2021

Power List 2021:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8956969/Lewis-Hamilton-tops-list-Britains-influential-black-people.html
November 2020

Included in Cranfield University’s list of FTSE 100 Women to WatchJuly 2018

Awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Honours List
June 2018

Women4Africa Recognition Award 2018
June 2018

Honorary Doctorate: PhD by the Business Faculty of Middlesex University
July 2016

Lifetime Achievement Award: Black Solicitors Network
November 2014

Black British Business Person of the Year 2014: BBBA
October 2014

General Counsel Power List 2013

The In-House Lawyer Journal: A member of the Power List 2013
August 2013

Legal Business GC Power List: a collection of 100 of the most interesting and influential in-house lawyers in business

Power List Member 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018

Numbered amongst Britain’s most influential black people 2008 and 2010
(Powerful Media.com)