Cordella Bart-Stewart, judge, founder of London firm Stewart & Co and social mobility campaigner, received an OBE.
OBEs also went to: Jonathan Bamford, formerly of the Information Commissioner's Office; Louise Di Mambro, registrar, Supreme Court; Professor Christopher Hodges, head, CMS research programme; Sarah Marchant, Crown Prosecution Service, South West; and Frances Woolley, former general counsel, Ofcom.
Glynis Wright, who launched Leicester firm Glynis Wright Solicitors, which merged with Nelsons in December, received the MBE for female entrepreneurship.
Wright said: ‘It truly is a privilege.’
MBEs also went to Nigel Priestley, senior partner, Ridley & Hall, and Sylvia Cundell, senior Crown Prosecutor, East of England.
CBEs went to: barrister and judge Fayyaz Afzal, who used technology to overcome visual impairment; former law commissioner Professor David Ormerod QC; and former Judicial Appointments Commission senior commissioner Phillip Sycamore.
Geoffrey Cox QC MP, former Attorney General, received a knighthood.
