Alison Russell

Dame Alison Hunter Russell (born 17 June 1958), styled The Hon. Ms Justice Russell, is a British High Court judge.

Russell was educated at Wellington School, Ayr and the Polytechnic of the South Bank. She was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1983. She has been a judge of the High Court of Justice (Family Division) since 2014.

On 6 May 2015, Russell received criticism for an order banning a woman from speaking about a case in which custody of her child was granted to the child's father and his lover after a surrogacy agreement broke down. On 23 October 2015, the decision of Judge Russell was overturned.