She trained for the Scottish Bar in Edinburgh from 1980, being admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in June 1982.
The post is currently vacant after Richard Keen stood down in January 2014, there will be an election for the new Dean with four candidates.
Dennistoun, eldest son of James Dennistoun (died 1 June 1834) by Mary Ramsay, daughter of George Oswald of Auchencruive, was born in Dumbartonshire in 1803, and after receiving his education at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, became a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1824.
For a short time after leaving parliament he returned to the Bar.
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He served as Sheriff of Caithness from 1917 to 1920 and of Argyll from February–May 1920, when he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.
Unless the cases are of especial importance, such as the Lockerbie trial held at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, the prosecutions are normally (but not always) led by Advocates Depute who are known collectively as Crown Counsel and are experienced members of the Faculty of Advocates normally appointed for a limited period of three years.
He was called to the Scottish Bar in 1946 and served as an Advocate Depute from 1948-51 and as Sheriff-substitute at Greenock from 1955-56 and in Glasgow from 1956-65.
He studied Law at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge (BA 1971), Harvard University (Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow, 1971–72; LLM 1972) and the University of Edinburgh School of Law (LLB 1974), and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1976, taking silk in 1988.
He was chosen dean of the Faculty of Advocates 15 November 1823, and was raised to the bench on the death of Lord Hermand in 1826, under the title of Lord Corehouse, from his residence Corehouse near the fall of Corra Linn on the River Clyde.