Robert Reed, Baron Reed of Allermuir

The Right Honourable The Lord Reed of Allermuir PC FRSE
Official portrait, 2022
President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 January 2020
Nominated by	David Gauke
Appointed by	Elizabeth II
Deputy	Lord Hodge
Preceded by	The Baroness Hale of Richmond
Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
In office 7 June 2018 – 13 January 2020
Nominated by	David Gauke
President	The Baroness Hale of Richmond
Preceded by	The Lord Mance
Succeeded by	Lord Hodge
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
In office 6 February 2012 – 7 June 2018
Nominated by	Kenneth Clarke
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
Senator of the College of Justice
In office 1998–2012
Nominated by	Tony Blair
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 January 2020 (Judicial Peer not sitting in the House) Life Peerage
Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong
In office 31 May 2017 – 30 March 2022
Appointed by	Leung Chun-ying
Personal details
Born	Robert John Reed (1956-09-07) 7 September 1956 (age 67) Scotland
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Jane Mylne, Lady Reed
Education	George Watson's College
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh (LLB) Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil)
Chinese name
Chinese	韋彥德
Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Wàih Yihn Dāk Jyutping Wai4 Jin6 Dak1

Robert John Reed, Baron Reed of Allermuir, PC, FRSE (born 7 September 1956) is a Scottish judge who has been President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since January 2020. 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; he served as one of the UK's ad hoc judges at the European Court of Human Rights. He was also a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.