Thomas Linden
Sir Thomas Linden (born 26 November 1964) is a British High Court judge. Linden was born in London, England and educated at Beechen Cliff School in Bath and St Brendan's Sixth Form College in Bristol. He studied jurisprudence at Keble College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class BA in 1987, and he completed the BCL there in 1988. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, practising employment, discrimination and sports law from Matrix Chambers, of which he was a founding member in 2000. As a practitioner, he appeared before the Court of Appeal, the  United Kingdom Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice. He was appointed a recorder in 2005 and took silk in 2006. He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2019. In 2019, he was knighted. On 13 January 2020, was appointed a judge of the High Court, replacing Sir Andrew Popplewell who was promoted to the Court of Appeal; Linden assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. In 1991, he married Brigit Connolly and together they have four daughters.