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President
Lady Justice Macur DBE
Dame Julia is a retired British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. She was called to the Bar in 1979 and was a practising barrister on the Midland Circuit between 1979 and 2005, being appointed as Queen’s Counsel (QC) in 1998. In 2005 she was appointed as a judge of the High Court’s Family Division having previously sat on a part-time basis as a Recorder of the Crown Court. In 2012, she was appointed by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling to lead a review of the terms of Sir Ronald Waterhouse’s inquiry into the abuse of children in care in north Wales between 1974 and 1996. Dame Julia was appointed as a Lady Justice of Appeal in July 2013 and became Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales in April 2017.
Governance
Chair
Paul Bowden
Paul is a solicitor and Law teacher whose work and practice is in the areas of environment and energy law, and business and human rights. He was a member of the team whose research led to the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and a member of the multi-party actions working group in Lord Woolf’s 1996 Review of Civil Justice in England and Wales. Paul is on the Advisory Council of the UK Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre. He is a fellow of the Woodward Corporation and past deputy chair of Lancing College. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the Nottingham Law School.
Deputy Chair
Jennifer Spencer
Jennifer joined the board in 2006. She is a management consultant with a background in marketing and PR and with considerable experience in the tourism and education sectors. For eleven years she was Director of Corporate Affairs at Nottingham Trent University, followed by six and a half years as Chief Executive of the destination management organisation Experience Nottinghamshire. Jennifer is Chair of the Board of the Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust (whose activities cover both a visitor attraction and an educational remit), a Non-Executive Director of the National Ice Centre and a stakeholder in SHED, a University of Derby Community Interest Company. She also serves on the Court of the University of Derby.
Chief Executive
Victoria Reeves
Victoria Reeves is an experienced heritage and museum leader with more than 30 years’ experience across museums, heritage, conservation and visitor attractions. She has been Chief Executive of the National Justice Museum since 2018.
Under Victoria’s leadership, the Museum has strengthened its educational reach, partnerships and public engagement, while developing its role as a leader in the delivery of public legal education nationally.
She champions partnership working and co-creation, empowering teams and communities to develop new opportunities for collaboration and engagement. The Museum’s education work now reaches around 30,000 young people each year.
Victoria has extensive experience in organisational strategy, fundraising, governance, commercial development, capital projects and organisational change, with a strong commitment to public benefit, sustainability and the role of museums in helping people understand and participate in society.
Board of Trustees
The National Justice Museum is a registered charity (1030554). We are governed by a board of trustees from different backgrounds. Current trustees are:
Struan Campbell
Struan is a creative programme maker and leader working at the intersection of education and inclusion.
He has worked as Head of Education for the British Council, the UK’s international cultural relations organisation, in the Netherlands, developing programmes to enhance collaboration between UK and Dutch educational, research and artistic communities.
Struan has also been Director of Education at The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, leading education policy for the barrister profession. This included leading national projects to improve access to the professions, which have received Social Mobility Awards and other recognition. This built on his earlier work in widening participation and inclusive education in higher education.
He has served as Treasurer of EUNIC Netherlands (European Union National Institutes for Culture), and as a Board Member of We Are Family, an adoptive parent support charity. He is also a Board Member of the English Theatre in Utrecht.
Jenny Chapman, LL.B. (Hons), LL.M., Solicitor, PFHEA
Jenny is the Executive Dean of Nottingham Law School (NLS) at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). NLS is one of the UK's largest and most established law schools. Jenny combines extensive senior academic experience with a legal practitioner background to provide strategic and academic leadership across NLS. Her role also encompasses contribution to the corporate leadership of NTU through active membership of the University Extended Executive Team.
Jenny has worked with numerous legal regulators, legal service providers, educational and charitable organisations over the course of her career and has led on significant and successful projects to develop and enhance NLS, including the development of NLS Legal which is a teaching law firm wholly owned by NTU. Jenny oversees the management of the law firm, which has won multiple national awards for its commitment to providing access to justice.
Roger Chapple
Roger was appointed a Circuit Judge in 2004, Resident Judge at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court in 2005 and thereafter sat at the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) until his appointment as a Senior Circuit Judge and Resident Judge at Inner London Crown Court in 2007, where he remained until 2016 when he decided, after 20 years at the Bar and 22 years on the Bench, to take early retirement to pursue other interests.
Since retirement, he has continued to sit judicially: as a judge of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, in the Crown Court in England, and as a judicial member of the Mental Health Tribunal. He travels extensively, undertaking advisory work and delivering professional and judicial training, most recently in Sierra Leone, Belize, South Africa, Botswana, the Cayman Islands, Mexico and China. He is a Master of the Bench of Gray’s Inn.
Helen Emmett
Helen Emmett is a senior finance executive with extensive experience in strategic financial management, audit, governance, and organisational oversight. She currently serves as Chief Financial Officer Global Finance Services and Finance Technology for Experian, where she leads on finance technology and Gen AI strategy, audit, finance service delivery risk management, and long‑term planning across a varied operational portfolio. Her work supports robust decision‑making and ensures alignment between organisational objectives and sustainable financial practice.
Throughout her career, Helen has focused on strengthening financial frameworks, enhancing reporting transparency, and supporting effective board‑level scrutiny. She is experienced in presenting complex financial information clearly and in maintaining high standards of integrity and professional discipline.
As a trustee and Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee at the National Justice Museum, Helen brings a strong commitment to responsible stewardship, risk‑aware oversight, and supporting long‑term organisational resilience.
Clive Foster MBE
Reverend Clive Foster MBE is a senior minister at the Pilgrim Church Nottingham and was appointed in 2025 as the UK’s first Windrush Commissioner. The role provides independent oversight of the Government’s response to the Windrush scandal, ensuring victims’ voices remain at the heart of efforts to deliver justice.
He founded the Nottingham Windrush Support Forum and previously served as vice chair of the Windrush National Organisation. He has worked at Nottingham Trent University as Multi-Faith Manager and Executive Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. His background spans community leadership, public service, and business and has long been involved in social justice work, particularly around racial inequality. As a former trustee of Citizens UK, he helped lead a research initiative on hate crime that contributed to Nottingham becoming the first UK city to recognise misogyny as a hate crime – work that earned him the Upstanding Organisation Award at the 2018 No2Hate National Awards. He was awarded an MBE in the 2023 New Year Honours List.
Vanessa Shaw
Vanessa is Visitor Experience Director at the Landmark Trust, a building conservation charity which rescues and restores historic buildings before giving them new life as holiday accommodation. She leads the performance and operation of over 200 properties and oversees all marketing, communications and public engagement.
Vanessa studied history at university after growing up in Nottingham and finding a love of historic places through trips to Wollaton Hall, Hardwick Hall and Nottingham Castle. Career-wise, her background is in the corporate sector, having qualified as an accountant with PwC followed by roles at the Tata Group and Diageo Plc. Vanessa joined NJM as a Trustee in January 2025 and is also on the board of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, a charity that campaigns to bring new life to threatened historic buildings.
Lily Walker-Parr
Lily Walker-Parr is a media and communications law barrister who practices at 5RB Chambers in Grays' Inn, London. She was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 2018 and advises and represents claimants and defendants across all areas of media law, including defamation, misuse of private information, data protection and harassment. Lily is ranked as Band 4 for defamation and privacy in the Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2026.
Beyond her practice, Lily takes a keen interest in widening access to the legal profession. She mentors aspiring barristers and organises work placements in chambers for students in conjunction with established social mobility schemes. Lily also sits on 5RB’s Equality and Diversity Committee and the Inner Temple’s Bar Liaison Committee, including on a subcommittee which oversees the Inn’s education and training programmes. In addition, she is a Trustee of The Marshall Hall Trust, which provides financial assistance to aspiring and practising barristers.
Ben Yallop
Ben joined the civil service in 2003 and has since held a range of senior roles within the Crown Court, the Royal Courts of Justice and the UK Supreme Court, working alongside very many of the leading judges of the day. Ben was the Principal Private Secretary to the 97th Lord Chief Justice and then to the first Lady Chief Justice, a role in which he was the senior adviser to the Head of the Judiciary of England and Wales, dealing with the highest profile and most sensitive issues facing the judiciary and managing the constitutional relationship with Government Ministers and other Parliamentarians. Ben was also Head of International for the judiciary, supporting legal education and the development of the rule of law and justice systems globally, often sharing his experience directly with Chief Justices and other judicial and justice sector leaders. Ben is a magistrate and volunteers with a number of justice sector charities working domestically and internationally.
