Nicholas Moss , Board chair, has been a magistrate for over 20 years, including three as chair of North Hertfordshire bench. He is independent chair of North Hertfordshire Council’s standards committee. From 2001-2007 he chaired Hertfordshire Probation Board. He also serves on local and national criminal justice committees. A journalist, he was head of policy management, BBC, and had responsibilities for programmes’ editorial standards and for accountability.

Dick Harper was head of finance and support services at the Bank of England’s printing works, at Debden, Essex prior to his early retirement. He became a member of the former Essex magistrates’ courts committee and then chair of the former Essex Courts Board. He is a volunteer at Billericay citizens advice, and chair of trustees (and former treasurer and fundraiser) of a large gymnastics centre in Basildon.

Norman Kirby trained as a tax inspector, serving 25 years in the senior civil service. He was president of the Association of HM Inspectors of Taxes and vice chair of the First Division Association. He then became a tax partner in what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers. Since retirement, he has taken up voluntary and charitable responsibilities. He chaired Bedfordshire Courts Board and is a non-executive member of HMCS Southeast region, chairing its risk and audit committee.

Jane Siggers is a member of St John Council, Essex and a guardian of the Brentwood and Ipswich Foyers. Appointed as a magistrate in 2000, to the former magistrates' courts committee in 2001, to the former Essex Courts Board in 2004, and to the Essex Police Authority in 2005.  She was awarded the serving sister of St John, appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Essex and to the courts of the University of Essex in 2004.

Stuart Sprawson, a solicitor, is one of four partners in a two-office legal practice operating in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. Stuart specialises in the criminal courts and has his higher courts rights of audience. He is a member of a practitioners’ group through which he is involved in national initiatives covering court practice and management. He is married with two children and his interests include competing in triathlons and what he terms other mad pastimes!

David Turner has been a circuit judge since 2004, dividing his time between criminal sittings in the Crown Court at Chelmsford and family work in the Royal Courts of Justice. He was called to the bar in 1976 after graduating in law from King’s College, London. He became a QC in 2000 and prior to his appointment as a judge was head of his chambers in Gray’s Inn.

Richard Woolfson is a doctor of mathematics. He taught as an academic before joining the diamond industry and then the information systems industry. In 1988 he became marketing director of a company providing consultancy services to government and the private sector. In 1991 he joined with Joyce Plotnikoff to provide research and consultancy services to the justice system. He was a lay magistrate for five years.