| Joyce has
a law degree from Bristol University, the Diploma in Social and
Administrative Studies (distinction)
from the University of Oxford and the Certificate of Qualification in
Social Work. After a short period as a probation
officer in Oxfordshire and a social worker in her home city of Glasgow,
she went to the United States where she worked as a probation officer in
Chicago before taking the Bar exam. She is admitted to both the Court
for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Her career
then took her to Washington D.C. as Attorney Advisor in the
Administrative Office of the US Courts. In 1981 she was
awarded a Judicial Fellowship by the Supreme Court of the United States
and the Justice Tom C. Clark award. On
completion of the Fellowship, she joined the Federal Judicial Center as
Senior Systems Analyst where she served until her return to Britain in
1983. She worked for the Home Office evaluating magistrates' courts
computer systems, then spent time as a
Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminological Research, University of
Oxford and the Institute of Judicial Administration, University
of Birmingham. Joyce also worked as a
children's guardian for 10 years and chaired the Lord Advocate’s
steering group on visual recording of joint investigative interviews of
children from 2004 to 2005.
She formed a Partnership
with Richard Woolfson in 1991 to undertake research and consultancy assignments
on behalf of government departments involved in the operation of the
legal system. The Partnership later incorporated to become Lexicon
Limited.
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