Catherine Calder
Joint Chief Executive
Serjeants Inn

Catherine is CEO of Serjeants’ Inn Chambers. Over the last decade the set has expanded its silk team from 9 to 25 KCs, recruited 45 new tenants and won 54 awards. Chambers holds the Bar Council’s Certificate of Excellence in Well-Being, and has won a series of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion awards.

She is a trustee of the Barristers’ Clerks Benevolent Fund and has served on various Bar Council Committees including the General Management Committee, the Covid-19 Working Party, the Wellbeing at the Bar Group and the International Committee. She has previously been co-chair of the Legal Practice Management Association and a trustee of the First 100 Years project. In addition to the British Legal Awards, she has also been a judge of the Advocate Pro Bono Awards and the Inspirational Women in the Law Awards.

Previously, Catherine trained and worked as a solicitor at Macfarlanes, before moving to a client, a Saatchi Group ad agency, as an account handler.

She won the Bar Leader of the Year Award at last year’s Legal 500 Awards and was the Innovator of the Year at the 2020 Women in Law and Diversity Awards.