Henry Hodge

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Sir Henry Egar Garfield Hodge OBE (born 12 January 1944) is an English solicitor and judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

Hodge qualified as a solicitor in 1970. From 1977, he practised as a solicitor in north London with the firm, Hodge Jones & Allen, that he founded with partners Peter Jones and Patrick Allen. He became a recorder in 1993, and a circuit judge in October 1999, when he retired from his firm. He was appointed Chief Immigration Adjudicator in 2001.

On 1 October 2004, he became is the third solicitor to sit as an High Court judge in England and Wales, after Sir Michael Sachs (appointed in 1993) and Sir Lawrence Collins (appointed in 2000). In April 2005, he became president of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.

He has served as chairman of the National Council for Civil Liberties, and as a deputy director of the Child Poverty Action Group. He received an OBE for services to the Social Security Advisory Committee. He was also a Vice-President of the Law Society.

He married Labour politician Margaret Hodge in 1978. In addition to a son and daughter from her first marriage, they have two daughters together.