Rita Rae, Lady Rae

Rita Rae, Lady Rae (born 20 June 1950) is a Scottish lawyer and a Senator of the College of Justice.

She became a solicitor in 1974. She joined the Faculty of Advocates from 1982 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1992. From 2003 to 2006 she was a member of the Sentencing Commission for Scotland.

Rae served as a temporary sheriff from 1987–1997. She was appointed a sheriff at Glasgow in 1997. She became temporary judge at the Court of Session in 2004. From 2001–2007 she was a member (and vice-chair from 2005) of the Parole Board for Scotland.

Rae was appointed as a permanent judge (a Lord Ordinary) of the Court of Session in January 2014.