Justice Valerie Thean has been appointed as deputy attorney-general from April 1, the Prime Minister's Office said on Monday (March 23).Justice Thean was appointed judicial commissioner in September 2014 and then Supreme Court judge in September 2017.She will resign from the office of judge effective March 31, and take on her new appointment the next day, joining deputy attorneys-general Lionel Yee, Tai Wei Shyong and Goh Yihan.A President's scholar, Justice Thean graduated with first class honours from Cambridge University in 1991, and did her Masters of Law from Harvard Law School in 1995.She joined the legal service in 1992 and has since held various appointments in the legal fraternity, including as assistant registrar at the Supreme Court, senior state counsel at the Attorney-General's Chambers and deputy secretary of the Ministry of Law. Justice Thean was appointed the first presiding judge of the Family Justice Courts on Oct 1, 2014, a position she held concurrently while serving as a judicial commissioner. Read more