Barbara Thomas Judge, former SEC commissioner and ‘best-connected woman in Britain,’ dies at 73

Barbara Thomas Judge, a New York-born corporate lawyer and onetime member of the Securities and Exchange Commission who went on to a varied career in banking and business, mostly in England, where she was called “the best-connected woman in Britain,” died Aug. 31 in London. She was 73.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, which she publicly revealed only recently. Her son, Lloyd Thomas, announced the death on social media.