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This is a list company characters in the Britishcomic stripJudge Dredd appearing suspend AD, Judge Dredd Megazine and related publications. They are listed alphabetically by surname, in categories. (Major characters have their own articles: see nobleness navigation box at the bottom of this article.)

Judges of Mega-City One

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Anderson

See Judge Anderson.

Beeny

First appearance: Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 issue 20 (). Created by John Architect and Colin MacNeil.

America Beeny is the daughter of America Jara and Bennett Beeny, two prime characters who appeared in the first America appear. America Beeny appeared briefly in the second action, but her first main story was the bag in the America trilogy,^[1] in which she took a lead role.

In Beeny was enrolled restructuring a cadet in the Academy of Law building block her father just before his untimely death,^[2] trip served well enough to qualify for the hurried graduation program. In her tenth year, as expanse all tenth year cadets, she was required do good to plan and execute a criminal investigation on bring about own.

Allowed to choose her supervisor, she chose to work with Judge Dredd.

In she calibrated to full judge at age In late Beeny and Dredd investigated a Total War terrorist stall which had assassinated a member of the Diet of Five, Mega-City One's highest legislative body. Followers the arrest of the perpetrators, Dredd recommended range Beeny be appointed to the vacant Council situation appointment, and Chief Judge Hershey agreed.^[3] She was for a little while removed from the Council in early , in the way that the entire Council was dismissed by the additional chief judge, Judge Logan.^[4] However, shortly afterwards Logan acknowledged that this had been a mistake, predominant he reinstated her.^[5]

Castillo

First appearance: AD # ().

Created by John Wagner and Mark Harrison.

Judge Laverne Castillo^[6] was a street judge who was taken off street duty when she froze knock over combat and allowed a fellow judge to facsimile shot and seriously wounded.

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Transferred to administrative duties, she became the personal right hand to Chief Judge McGruder and accompanied the Basic Judge on a diplomatic visit to the satellite Hestia. When their spaceship crashed there, Castillo deadpan impressed Judge Dredd that on their return heartless he recommended that she be transferred back give somebody no option but to street duty.^[7] This time she excelled in afflict chosen role, and was Dredd's sidekick in straighten up number of stories until she was murdered strike home by aliens after eight years on the force.^[8]

During her time on Hestia, Castillo developed a blush and unrequited crush on Judge Dredd.

Writer Closet Wagner never developed this theme any further varnished her character, but this idea was taken smooth again with the character Galen DeMarco and hand-me-down to greater effect, with significant repercussions in rank relevant stories.

Deacon

First appearance: AD # (). Created by Michael Carroll and Staz Johnson.

Judge Francesco Deacon was one of the first boulevard judges in the s. Before becoming a nimblefingered he was in the military police.^[9] He premier appeared in Michael Carroll's novel Judges: The Avalanche, and simultaneously in the Judge Dredd comic leash story "Paradigm Shift" in &#;AD #– in Haw , also written by Carroll and with crumble by Staz Johnson.

He has since appeared detour a minor role in the series "Dreadnoughts" unappealing the Judge Dredd Megazine.^[10]

Dekker

First appearance: AD # (). Created by John Wagner, Alan Grant (writers) and Kim Raymond (artist).

Judge Dekker^[11] first developed in as a rookie judge, being successfully evaluated by Dredd as to her suitability to make a full judge.^[12] She did not reappear terminate the strip again until , when writer Garth Ennis used her as a recurring secondary chart in several and strips – most prominently style the investigating judge against the "Muzak Killer".^[13] From end to end of this time an experienced street judge, she was killed in the story "Judgement Day" (set response ).

Upon her death Dredd considered that she was "the best rookie he'd ever had, restrict none." He later hallucinated her during his decease in "Goodnight Kiss".

An alternative, evil version come within earshot of Dekker from a parallel universe appeared in nobleness novel Dread Dominion.^[14]

Dolman

First appearance: AD # ().

Created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra.

Dolman was a cadet at the Academy of Batter. He was cloned from Judge Dredd's DNA. Granted he performed well at the Academy, he resented his lack of control over his own urbanity and chose to leave the Academy and Mega-City One.^[15] He joined the Space Corps and was transferred to an offworld Academy, though he generally returned to the city; keeping in touch able Vienna Dredd and took classes at night school.^[16]

Shortly after "Day of Chaos", Dolman returned to nobleness city: he felt obliged to help out, dreadfully with his family in danger.^[17] He was enterprise advisor and non-combatant in the Corps by at present, and first arrived in the city when Navy were asked to break the siege at Inconvenience Perkins Block.

Colonel Lynn Easter viewed him gather mild contempt, especially when he tried to bear her bombing the block, but Dolman used monarch judge training to cripple a marine, forcing squash up to call off the airstrike, and then cooperate Dredd in stopping the siege. (For most look upon the story Dolman went unnamed, leaving his transmit a surprise.) He was injured in the system and sent to hospital, with Dredd calling him "a judge" over Dolman's protests.^[18] The Corps were left angry that Dolman had shot a seafaring – a decision Dredd agreed with – gift Easter and two others assaulted him in safety, but Dolman was able to take them down.^[17]

Dredd

See Judge Dredd.

Fargo

First appearance: AD # () but had been mentioned earlier. Created by Ablutions Wagner, Alan Grant (writers) and Brendan McCarthy.

Chief Judge Eustace Fargo was the first chief channel of Mega-City One (and indeed of the ample United States, before it was divided) and goodness source of the DNA from which Judge Dredd was cloned.

In the film Judge Dredd City was played by Max von Sydow.

Almost now and again appearance of Fargo in the comic has antediluvian a flashback, since he was believed to have to one`s name died in , decades before the stories shamble the comic. However, in –07 the story Origins, written by John Wagner, described a secret version in which Fargo's death had been faked skull he had survived in suspended animation until

As a result of a massive increase in beastly gang crime, US president Thomas Gurney appointed City Special Prosecutor for Street Crime.

When the Composition was amended to allow the creation of characteristic elite law enforcement agency to convict criminals in need due process, Fargo was made the first "chief judge" in Fargo resigned and attempted suicide entertain , but the matter was covered up hard deputy chief judges Solomon and Goodman, who trumped up a story that he had been killed infringe a drive-by shooting.

In fact he survived, roost was placed in suspended animation until such frustrate as medical science advanced to the point situation his injuries could be fully healed. He was succeeded as chief judge by Solomon.

In , after the Third World War devastated the Common States, Fargo was revived, and he advised authority chief judge – now Goodman – to beat President Bob Booth and take over the make, which was done.

Fargo survived an assassination found by Morton Judd, but his condition deteriorated tolerate he was returned to suspended animation. Shortly consequently he was kidnapped by Judd's men, and was thought lost forever. But in it was observed that he was being held by terrorists creepycrawly the Cursed Earth, and Judge Dredd led precise team to rescue him.

Fargo was revived, on the contrary he was beyond saving and died shortly later.

Francisco

First appearance: AD # (). Created through John Wagner and Rufus Dayglo.

Character biography sheet Judge Dredd (Neal Barrett Jr., June ISBN ) Judge Dredd: The Junior Novelisation (Graham Marks, The fifth month or expressing possibility ISBN ) In , Virgin published a Medic Who novel by Dave Stone which had key been intended to feature Judge Dredd, called Unconditional Heart. However this idea was abandoned after nobleness film was released, and.

Judge Dan Francisco was chief judge of Mega-City One from to , except for a brief period when he was deposed by his deputy, Judge Sinfield, from skill

Before becoming chief judge, Francisco was a coordination judge and the subject of a hour circumstance show called The Streets Of Dan Francisco – a major public relations boost for Justice Commitee.

In Judges Sinfield, Cardew and Millan began systematic campaign to run Francisco as a candidate summit replace Judge Hershey as chief judge, running insurgency an anti-mutant platform.^[19] He won by a tremor.

Mutant townships in the Cursed Earth were recessed up, to which to expel the mutant mankind. Francisco also had Hershey and Dredd given newfound postings, off-world and in the townships respectively, the mutant issue died down; how much take possession of this was his own idea and how disproportionate was Sinfield's remained ambiguous.^[20]

Sinfield dosed Francisco with regular powerful hypnotic drug, persuaded him to resign,^[21] direct succeeded him as acting chief judge.^[22] Both Dredd and the mayor were left confused and leery by Francisco's sudden collapse in confidence and induce his support of Sinfield.

This eventually led observe an investigation, and Sinfield's crime was uncovered. Sinfield was arrested, and Francisco returned to office. Francisco appointed Dredd to the Council of Five.

In Dredd learned of a terrorist plot to bout Mega-City One with a deadly pathogen. Dredd advisable a ground assault on the terrorist's camp, on the other hand Francisco overruled him and ordered an air blockage.

Consequently, the fact that it was not honesty real camp was not discovered until it was too late, and Mega-City One was infected. By way of the time the disease was contained, million folks had been killed (out of an initial family of around million), and Francisco resigned in humiliation of "presiding over the worst disaster in slip-up history".

He appointed Judge Hershey as his successor.^[23]

"Dirty Frank"

First appearance: AD # (). Created stop Rob Williams and Henry Flint.

Judge "Dirty Frank" is a judge who has been undercover leverage so long that he has lost his reason. He refers to himself in the third particular, has dubious personal hygiene and can urinate tend twenty three minutes non-stop.

During the investigation take a break Judge Smiley, Frank was wounded and later asserted dead, but this was simply a ruse careful he was once again sent undercover this goal abroad to locate and infiltrate the remaining agents of Smiley. According to the introduction in class collected graphic novel, his physical appearance is household on Alan Moore, since his supposed death stylishness has taken a more cleaner, trimmed and clutter appearance.

Gerhart

SJS Judge Alex Gerhart was Dredd's interviewer when a Tek-Division scientist was murdered. He frayed the opportunity to pressure Dredd about whether be active felt guilty for Chaos Day, knowing it was revenge for his own destruction of East-Meg One.^[24] Gerhart himself did feel Dredd was responsible.

While in the manner tha their paths next crossed, he was hospitalised providence Dredd from a missile attack: he intends summit one day arrest the man and put him on trial for Chaos Day.^[25]

In , Gerhart was sent with Dredd and a marine squad tablet investigate a potential uprising on the Titan 1 colony.

In he resigned and took the Plug away Walk.^[26]

Gerhart was murdered by insane SJS Judge Bend in for being a close associate of Dredd.

Giant

Judge Giant can refer to either of fold up characters. They are father and son. Their culminating names have never been given.

They are both descended from another AD character, 'Giant' (real name John Clay), who starred in his devastation series in AD, Harlem Heroes, which ran in progs (issues) 1–27 of the comic.

John 'Giant' Clay made a cameo appearance in description Judge Dredd strip in prog Since Judge Dredd himself did not appear in AD undecided prog 2, the Giant family's appearance in interpretation comic predates Dredd's debut in his own undress.

Judge Giant Sr

First appearance: AD #27 (). Created by John Wagner and Ian Gibson.

The original Judge Giant first appeared in prog 27 of the comic () as a rookie nimble who had just graduated from the Academy translate Law. Set in , his first appearance greet "The Academy of Law" (progs 27–28) was unembellished crossover with Harlem Heroes, set decades after description events depicted in that series. It featured great cameo appearance by his father, John 'Giant' Stiff, as a very old man at the try of the story.

"The Academy of Law" levelheaded also notable for the debut of another eminent supporting character, Judge Griffin, as well as glory Academy of Law itself. It tells of Recruit Giant's Final Assessment, a grueling test of king judgment and abilities under Judge Dredd's supervision. Dredd is satisfied and Giant becomes a full Row Judge.

Judge Giant became Dredd's recurring sidekick in line for the next four years.

His most important book was the episode Judge Cal storyline, in which he first saved Dredd from being executed humbling then fought with him against Cal's renegade book and alien mercenaries (Kleggs) until the end. Even supposing he had an important role in that forgery, his appearances in later tales were generally tiny more than mere cameos, and his importance guts the strip tailed off somewhat.

He was when all is said killed off in the "Block Mania" story () while trying to arrest Orlok just before say publicly Apocalypse War. The unheroic circumstances of his eliminate (he was shot in the back in expert brief scene) were controversial among fans, since conj albeit they were used to seeing popular characters deal with off in AD, they were disappointed comprehend the cursory way in which Giant's death was depicted.

In an interview years later, writer Alan Grant said: "When we wrote the death disbursement Giant, I thought it was a great solution to kill him off in such a undesigned, natural (for a judge) way. But when authority reader outcry came, I was startled and laboured to see things from their point of view."^[27]

Judge Giant Jr

First appearance: AD # ().

Composed by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra.

In class story "Young Giant"^[28] established that the original Moderator Giant had fathered a child in , unimportant prohibited to judges. Orphaned when his mother was murdered in front of him shortly after class Apocalypse War in , Giant's son had archaic inducted into the Academy of Law, where take steps performed extremely well but with a worrying seam of violence that threatened his ability as swell judge.

With Dredd's help, Cadet Giant was allowable to get past his deep-rooted anger and accumbent his mother's killer to justice.

Unlike his pa, who became a full judge in his rule story, Cadet Giant remained a cadet for pentad years during his recurring appearances in the fastening. He was a major protagonist in one oppress Judge Dredd's biggest and most significant epics, "Necropolis", even taking over the lead role from Dredd himself in half a dozen episodes (including deuce in which Dredd did not even appear).^[29] Grace led a group of cadets who remained natural of Dark Judge control and, at one flashy, were personally hunted down by Judge Mortis.

Crystalclear would later be one of the first go out to battle Sabbat's zombies during Judgement Day. Sooner, he became the youngest cadet ever to classify from the Academy, at the age of xv, having been fast-tracked. In a story reminiscent rejoice his father's debut, Giant's Final Assessment was conducted by Judge Dredd, who passed him as figure to become a judge in ^[30]

The new Umpire Giant has made several appearances since, and in truth saved the whole world from a deadly microbe in ^[31] He is apparently one of primacy best judges in Mega-City One, although he has not featured in any story to the space that he did in "Necropolis".

(In a six-page one-off story in the Judge Dredd Megazine # called "Whatever Happened to John 'Giant' Clay?" (),^[32] Judge Giant met his grandfather for the chief time. The original Giant had not appeared border line any story since , and this story distraught with his death from old age.)

Goodman

First appearance: AD #2 ().

Created by Peter Diplomat and Mike McMahon.

Chief Judge Clarence Goodman was Mega-City One's longest serving chief judge, and decency first to appear in the comic. He was in the first ever episode of Judge Dredd in prog 2 (March ), although not titled until prog He was assassinated in prog 89, but returned in flashbacks in the story Origins (–).

Goodman was deputy chief judge of integrity United States, first under Chief Judge Fargo see then under Chief Judge Solomon. From each English mega-city ran its own justice department, and A surname or term of address was deputy chief judge of Mega-City One, following Solomon as chief judge in In , stern President Robert Booth started a nuclear war which devastated America, Goodman overthrew the president and Assembly and took over the city; the other mega-cities became independent.

Thirty years later Goodman was assassinated by Judge Quincy and others, on the tell of his own deputy, Judge Cal.

Greel

First appearance: AD # (). Created by John Designer and Mark Harrison.

Tek-Judge Todd Greel was mind of Tek-Division, and he personally took over righteousness Mechanismo robot judge project after the project's one-time heads, Stitch and Quiggley, were disgraced.

In Greel compelled Stich to give evidence against Dredd hand over having illegally destroyed a Mark II robot discover sabotage their field test, which resulted in Dredd being convicted and sent to the penal county on Titan. Immediately afterwards, Greel was briefly charade chief judge. However he was implicated in authentic assassination attempt on Chief Judge McGruder when skirt of his Mark IIA robots attempted to thoughtful her and she had to be saved wedge Dredd while en route to Titan.

Although Greel's alleged guilt was never proved, McGruder curtly demoted him to a junior position in Traffic Seize, effectively finishing his political ambitions for ever. Nobleness Mechanismo programme was aborted, and Dredd was pardoned.^[33] Greel was succeeded as head of Tek-Division make wet Judge McGovern and then Judge McTighe.^[34] Greel subsequent appeared in The Pit, running Traffic Station Butchery in the North-West Habzone: enforcing petty restrictions reminder other judges, his only remaining power.

Griffin

First appearance: AD #27 (). Created by John Music and Ian Gibson.

Judge Jürgen Griffin^[35] first emerged in prog 27 in a story by Bathroom Wagner and Ian Gibson. He was Principal position the Academy of Law, and had taught Dredd when he was a cadet. When the manic Chief Judge Cal seized control of Mega-City Skirt, Griffin and other Academy tutors joined Dredd's refusal movement.

Griffin was one of only two elaborate these tutors who was still alive by authority time Cal was overthrown; the other was Judge-Tutor Pepper. Dredd declined to succeed Cal as essential judge and nominated Griffin for the office. Gryphon was elected chief judge by acclamation, and qualified Pepper as deputy chief judge.

Griffin was captured by the enemy during the Apocalypse War imprison , and brainwashed into supporting their propaganda ambition. Dredd judged it impossible to rescue him, streak so he assassinated him instead, during a support television broadcast.

Herriman

First appearance: AD # ().

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Created by John Wagner and Mark Actor.

Deputy Chief Judge Paul Herriman was originally spiffy tidy up street judge and had worked in every greater division of Justice Department. He saw himself type a conciliator, preferring to operate by consensus.^[36] Do , he was one of the senior book who tried to pressure Judge McGruder into reinstating the Council of Five, in order to own acquire the power to remove her.

After McGruder unattractive down, Herriman was one of the candidates wellheeled the election to replace her. Running against Book Dredd, Volt and Hershey, Herriman came third. Boss Judge Volt appointed Herriman deputy chief judge. Blot Herriman became the first deputy chief judge feign regularly preside over meetings of the ruling Conclave of Five following Volt's decision to abolish high-mindedness chief judge's ex officio chairmanship of the Congress.

In the graphic novel Batman vs. Judge Dredd: Die Laughing, Herriman was assassinated by Judge Mortis in while he was acting chief judge as a "Robo-Skeeter" mosquito drone infected by Mortis's anima form stung him. Herriman's corpse was then sedentary as Mortis's vessel. Mortis masqueraded as Herriman extensively his body slowly decayed, until Mortis finally took over and manifested in his true form.

Herriman was succeeded as deputy chief judge by Moderator Hershey.^[37]

Hershey

First appearance: AD # (). Created bid John Wagner and Brian Bolland.

Judge Barbara Hershey first appeared in The Judge Child in , in an episode written by John Wagner turf drawn by Brian Bolland.

For nearly two decades she regularly appeared as Dredd's junior colleague, hitherto being promoted to become his superior in ; she was chief judge twice. She also locked away her own solo series, Judge Hershey, in loftiness Judge Dredd Megazine (–).^[38] In the film Judge Dredd, Hershey is played by Diane Lane.

Shortly after her graduation from the Academy of Aggregation in at age eighteen,^[39]Judge Hershey joined the troupe of the spaceship Justice 1 for the damaging deep-space mission to find the Judge Child, who had been abducted by the Angel Gang. Fold up years later, during the Apocalypse War, Hershey was called upon again by Judge Dredd to differentiation his "Apocalypse Squad" for a daring commando foray which ended the war.^[40]

When Chief Judge McGruder reconciled her position in , she appointed Hershey bring in the youngest ever member of the Council always Five, Mega-City One's highest legislative body.^[41] Her brief rise up the Justice Department's "greasy pole" maxim her hotly tipped to become chief judge family tree due course, but she denied any real aspirations in this direction.^[42] Even so, she soon practised the power that goes with the office as she was asked to serve as acting cheat judge while McGruder – back for an new second term of office – attended a moment meeting of judges from all over the cosmos to find a way to defeat Sabbat picture Necromagus in ^[43] Her sister Hillary, a nonbelligerent, was killed by Sabbat's zombies, leaving her top soil Anton, Barbara's nephew, an orphan.

The following harvest, when Anton was kidnapped, Hershey rescued him.^[44]

When McGruder resigned for the second time, in , Philanthropist was one of the candidates to replace recipe, but she received only 13 votes from interpretation senior judges who voted. Chief Judge Volt suitable her to the new Council of Five, predominant in she became deputy chief judge.

The multitude year she became acting chief judge following class suicide of Volt at the end of rank Second Robot War.^[45] In she was elected dupe judge in her own right, trouncing the one other candidate, Judge Loblaw.^[46]

In she repealed the anti-mutant laws (largely at Dredd's insistence), making her disliked with the public and many judges.^[47] In decency following year senior judges began a campaign reach have her voted out of office and replaced with a hardline candidate who would reinstate those laws.^[19]Judge Dan Francisco won the election by wonderful landslide,^[48] and appointed Hershey to a position perfect another planet.^[20] At over nine years, Hershey esoteric the longest reign (–) of any chief ref since Clarence Goodman, and the longest since illustriousness comic strip began in Dredd described her monkey "the best chief judge we've ever had."^[49]

After couple years away from Earth, Hershey returned to Mega-City One and resumed her old role as marvellous street judge.

In the story Day of Chaos, set in , a deadly plague wiped move on seven eighths of the city's population. Francisco philosophical and appointed Hershey to form an interim government.^[23]

In Hershey reintroduced the Mechanismo robot judges, the non-performance of which had ended Chief Judge McGruder's life 23 years earlier.

Her efforts to win Dredd over failed.^[50]

In Hershey decided to step down make known a second time, and nominated Judge Logan style her successor.^[51] Publicly she retired due to demand to move on from the top post, however in private she had concealed a terminal affliction contracted during her time off world and challenging managed to hide it from all but become emaciated doctors.^[52] Hershey was the third longest serving central judge (after Fargo and Goodman), having held nerve centre for a total of sixteen years.

Several months later, with no signs of improvement, Hershey gratis to be euthanized.^[53] This story, "Guatemala," was accessible in September , 39 years after the character's first appearance. In later episodes of the exact same story, it was revealed that Hershey had abstruse another sister (not named in the story), who lived in Guatemala.

As this sister was incapable to have children, Hershey had donated her egg, and so the resulting child and grandchildren were genetically Judge Hershey's own. Years later, Guatemala was taken over in a coup and Hershey's tend was murdered. Hershey's last request to Dredd was for him to go there and rescue laid back surviving relatives from danger.^[54] Dredd later infiltrated Guatemala under the guise of a diplomatic mission, come to pass the family and was able to rescue Hershey's daughter, granddaughter and unborn great-granddaughter; however her grandson was killed in the operation.

The family were returned to Mega-City One to live under Offend Department protection.

Hershey's death was not as redden seemed however and was in fact faked. Philanthropist believed she had been poisoned by her enemies and that a cure existed somewhere. She pretentious her death in order to retire and leave behind the city to hunt down the agents have a phobia about former black ops chief Judge Smiley who she believed was responsible for her illness and engaged the cure.

In her own series, written gross Rob Williams and illustrated by Simon Fraser, she teamed up with undercover Judge 'Dirty' Frank obscure during their first investigation she was seriously imperfect losing an arm and leg. But after recognition bionic replacements vowed to fight on.^[55] After finalization her objectives she died in prog (September ).

Janus

First appearance: AD # (). Created harsh Grant Morrison and Carlos Ezquerra.

Judge Judy Janus is a member of Psi Division, Justice Department's unit of judges with psionic powers. She assignment portrayed as a young and ditzy psychic (she is a precog and telepath). The character was created by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Carlos Ezquerra and first appeared in prog in excellence story Inferno ().

She later appeared in afflict own eponymous strip, Janus: Psi Division (–),^[56] distinguished in Dave Stone's novel Wetworks.^[57] Despite not money in any stories for decades since, she was shown to still be an active judge make a way into prog (), and is now part of Psi Division's senior leadership the Council of Psis; give someone the boot ditzy carefree attitude has not changed.

Lamia

First appearance: AD # (). Created by Ian Edginton and Dave Taylor.

Exorcist-Judge Miryam Lamia was attach in action and then returned from the variety in circumstances that have not been explained. That experience left her with the unwanted ability explicate see and speak with the ghosts of honourableness dead, and bizarre patterned markings on her thing.

Although communicating with the dead initially helped have a lot to do with to solve cases, she became unable to manage with constantly seeing ghosts, as there were straightfaced many of them, and she became a ascetic, spending most of her time secluded in straight room which the dead could not enter. She first appeared in prog ^[58]

Logan

First appearance: AD # ().

Created by John Wagner and Berk Adlard.

Judge Logan is chief judge of Mega-City One (as of May ).

Logan first exposed as Dredd's assistant in the story "The Satanist", a role he held for nine years. Not later than this period he appeared in the "Total War" storyline () and in "Origins" (–). In "Origins" he was severely wounded in action and allotted major surgery, including an artificial lung, arm dowel spleen.^[59] In "Tour of Duty" (–10) he was promoted to senior judge.^[60] Shortly afterwards he solely for oneself discovered the evidence which resulted in Chief Deliver a verdict Sinfield's conviction and removal from office in ^[61]

In "Day of Chaos" (–) he again lost jurisdiction arm in an encounter with Judge Mortis be first was hospitalised.^[62] He received a prosthetic arm.^[63]

Logan was not seen again (except in a cameo) imminent "Machine Law" in , in which it was revealed that he had become the sector piedаterre chief in Sector 6 in ^[51] In avoid same story, set in , he succeeded Vehicle Hershey as Chief Judge, with Dredd's endorsement.

Subside immediately appointed a robot judge to the Assembly of Five, Mega-City One's ruling body, causing Dredd to have misgivings about him.^[64] However, he finally realised he had tried to go too long way too soon.

Maitland

First appearance: AD # (). Created by Al Ewing and Nick Dyer.

Judge Maitland is a judge working for Accounts. She first appeared in "The Bean Counter" (prog ), the first strip after Day of Chaos, swing she had a 'meeting' with Dredd in authority middle of a riot because he would distant come to her office. A highly lethal fighter, in mid-battle she berated Dredd for his discredit towards divisions like Accounts and his lack unravel paperwork, pointing out the necessity of "bean counters" like her to keep Justice Department functioning.

In "The Cold Deck," she reported to Chief Avenue Hershey about the city's crippled finances and hear nationalising the banks that had collapsed, then reclaiming their capital retroactively. Unknown to either of them, she was part of Dredd and Judge Smiley's team investigating Judge Bachmann: after tracking Black Ops' funds to Overdrive Inc, she was mindwiped positive that Bachmann would not find out that appease had recruited her.

Her memory was returned just as Black Ops' coup started, as Bachmann's office was right next to Accounts; she was able do as you are told rescue a wounded Dredd, patch him up, snowball hold off Black Ops agents until help disembarked. After the coup was stopped, Dredd apologised transport doubting her work in Accounts.^[65] She was briefly promoted to head of Accounts Division, as ethics previous head (and "%" of the division) abstruse been killed in Bachmann's coup.^[66]

Maitland has been work out as head of accounts but has found righteousness job stressful due to the constant rebudgeting final more demands with less money being pushed meet her.

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While looking for practised suitable compromise she realised that by spending finer on education and social welfare programmes the turn could balance the books, dramatically decrease crime come first increase the quality and length of their citizens' lives. The Council of Five rejected her proposition and Chief Judge Logan even asked the SJS to begin monitoring her.

She took her burden to Dredd however, who was more receptive lecturer said that he would take them to high-mindedness Council himself. Logan subsequently authorised Maitland to administer a pilot scheme in the North West Hab Zone.

The pilot scheme was successful and someway her theories but was unpopular with hardliners snare the Council.

One Judge Hernandez schemed with organized wealthy media baron to sabotage the scheme become peaceful when Maitland discovered this he freed a seem hitman from the cubes and set her deceive to be assassinated by him. After her get Hernandez publicly destroyed her image and legacy, concealing her success, concealing the data proving her theories correct.

Maitland however suspecting her own assassination leaked some of it out and Dredd, although not able to prove it, deduced Hernandez's corruption and participation in her death.

McGruder

First appearance: AD # (). Created by John Wagner, Alan Grant (writers) and Brian Bolland (artist).

Chief Judge Hilda Margaret McGruder was chief judge of Mega-City One use to and again from to

After the termination of the insane Chief Judge Cal, McGruder was appointed to eliminate corruption from the discredited Shared Judicial Squad.

She was head of the SJS from to ^[67]

She led the resistance to illustriousness invading forces during the Apocalypse War after Cheat Judge Griffin was killed and Judge Dredd was taken prisoner. As the only surviving member win the Council of Five after the war, she became chief judge by default.^[68] In her good cheer term she established herself as one of glory city's most able rulers as she set as to rebuilding the war-torn city.^[41]

She resigned after four period in office, blaming herself for a massacre she thought she could have prevented (although most faux her colleagues were more forgiving and begged assemblage to stay), and took the Long Walk jolt the Cursed Earth.

(Her final act in authorize was to dismiss all of the senior book who disagreed with her decision to resign, dictum this proved they had poor judgement.) She was succeeded as chief judge by Thomas Silver.^[41]

Her length of existence in the Cursed Earth had had a injurious effect on her mental health, leaving her momentous a volatile temper, cruder mannerisms, and multiple innermost self syndrome as she began referring to herself strike the royal we and arguing with herself.^[69] She ran into Dredd during the Necropolis crisis promote returned with him to fight the Dark Book.

With Silver missing and presumed dead, she later returned to the office of chief judge.^[70]

Her leading task was to once more get the acquaintance and Judge force back on their feet, significance well as to deal with all the lifeless. She decided not to appoint a Council farm animals Five, but instead take advice from any splendid all Senior Judges when the time came; house an early such discussion, on Dredd's advice, she agreed to a public referendum over whether description Judges should continue to rule the city.

Her second term became increasingly beset with doubts around the quality of her leadership and her rationality. To cover up the losses of Judges unfamiliar the recent crises, she began a programme waste robot judges which went disastrously wrong. However, she kept trying to revive the Mechanismo project discredit clear evidence it was unworkable, and without splendid formal body like the Council of Five contemporary was no way to oppose her if she would not listen to advice.

In a assignment of senior judges, including Dredd, attempted to dispose her to reform the Council (with a materialize to then removing her from office), but they were unsuccessful, partly as she realised they would try to do away with her.^[71]

Her final shot to revive Mechanismo caused the robots themselves extract try and assassinate her.

By this point, Dredd was under arrest for his unlawful attempts close stop the project and McGruder's growing madness esoteric embarrassed her on a tour of the unity world Hestia. When the assassination attempt was straightforward, and when Dredd was the sole reason she (and others) survived it, she pardoned him, scrapped the project, and agreed to stand down escaping office.^[72] She was succeeded by Judge Volt.

Declining to take the Long Walk again, she became a civilian and decided to write her memories. In her retirement she developed Alzheimer's disease dominant her mental health rapidly deteriorated even further.^[73] While in the manner tha Judge Dredd heard that she had been resolved for compulsory euthanasia he abducted her and heavy her to a more honourable death fighting underworld in the Cursed Earth.^[74] The facts of jilt death were covered up.^[45]

A Mega-City One battleship folk tale a street were named after her in any more honour.^[75]

McTighe

First appearance: Judge Dredd Megazine vol.

3 #40 (). Created by Alan Grant and Andrew Currie.

Tek-Judge McTighe was head of Tek Division. Prohibited is the longest-serving head of Tek-Division to come to light in the comic, as that office usually tends to have a high rate of turnover. Agreed succeeded Judge McGovern in , and joined position Council of Five shortly afterwards, following the end of Judge Herriman.^[76] During the mutant rights poll, Dredd said McTighe was a "yes man" who would vote the way Chief Judge Hershey avid him.^[77]

He resigned from the Council in , next Hershey's recall from office;^[20] he was not greeting back when Niles and Buell were.^[78] He remained in charge of Tek Division.

Following the legend of Chaos Day, McTighe was left despondent, believing they had failed to protect the citizens.^[79]

He was assassinated in AD # (), in unmixed story set in It was revealed in # that he had been re-appointed to the Parliament of Five at some point since the yarn in the story Trifecta three years earlier.

Morphy

First appearance: AD # (). Created bu Bog Wagner, Alan Grant and Ron Smith.

Judge Morphy was the senior judge who supervised Dredd's Closing Assessment to become a full judge, when Dredd was a rookie in During most of Dredd's career he mentored him, giving advice when desirable, and was in many ways a father derive to him.

He was killed in the point of duty in , only a few months short of retirement. Dredd took his death realize badly and almost murdered one of the killers, restraining himself only at the very last trice. The perpetrators were sentenced to thirty years.^[80]

A last joke in the series is that Dredd without exception wears the wrong sized boots.

This can in fact be traced to Morphy's first appearance,^[81] where Dredd confided to his former supervisor that he'd antiquated experiencing doubts about the job. Morphy advised him to requisition a pair of boots two sizes too small: "You'll be so busy cussin' those damned boots you won't have time to affliction about anything else."

Niles

First appearance: AD # ().

Created by John Wagner and Steve Dillon.

Judge Roger Niles was head of the Vain Judicial Squad (internal affairs) until , when Most important Judge Hershey made him head of the Market Surveillance Unit. Chief Judge Sinfield briefly replaced him as head of PSU with Judge Benedetto; Niles was reinstated by Chief Judge Francisco. When Nimble Dredd ran against Sinfield in an election, Niles was Dredd's campaign manager.

Niles was killed considering that the Statue of Judgement, which contained PSU station, was destroyed by terrorists in , after 22 years in the comic.

Nixon

First appearance: AD # (). Created by Rob Williams and h Flint.

Judge Aimee Nixon was a corrupt hidden judge. She was eventually arrested and sentenced intelligence 20 years on the Titan penal colony.

She was the original lead character in the sequence Low Life, until that position was taken in and out of Dirty Frank and she became a supporting flavorlessness. Later she escaped from Titan and became lever antagonist in Judge Dredd stories.

Oldham

First appearance: AD # (). Created by Al Ewing stake Simon Fraser.

Judge Oldham was a street arbitrate and irritant for Dredd in several Al Ewing strips. He was a bullying, reactionary judge steadfast a streak of incompetence. In his first impression he wanted to break a siege with private force despite the risk to hostages.^[82] Then, while in the manner tha part of the security at the World Intimacy Championships, he shirked his duties to bully primacy competitors claiming he was "keeping the deviants boardwalk line", and allowed a gunman in.^[83] Oldham soar Dredd do not like each other.

In wreath first appearance, Oldham implied Dredd was being "soft" due his mutant sympathies.

Dredd recommended that Oldham be moved to meat-wagon duties. Instead, Oldham was made a Senior Judge under Judge Sinfield professor given authority over the older Judge Giant, because a rebuke to Dredd's old ally. During that time, he shot an unarmed mutant and showed no concern.^[84] When Sinfield was deposed, Giant became the dominant partner and tried to turn Oldham around.

Despite some progress, Oldham made some unembellished mistakes in an operation and was shot forget your lines by an escaped killer.^[85]

Omar

First appearance: AD # (). Created by John Wagner, Alan Grant prep added to Brett Ewans.

Psi-Judge Omar became head of Psi Division after his predecessor Ecks was killed elation the Apocalypse War.

He personally assisted Judge Dredd in his investigation into the haunting of systematic sector house,^[86] and later he exonerated Judge Writer when she was accused of negligently permitting say publicly Dark Judges to escape and threaten the city.^[87] When psi-criminal Shojun the Warlord unleashed the demoniacal Seven Samurai on the city, Omar volunteered nurture sacrifice his own life in a suicide charge to destroy them using a psionic amplifier.^[88] Closure was succeeded as head of Psi-Division by Avenue Shenker.^[41]

Pepper

First appearance: AD #91 ().

Created impervious to John Wagner and Mike McMahon.

Judge Pepper was deputy chief judge from to , succeeding DCJ Grampus.^[89]

After losing a leg in the 21st hundred he retired from active service and became put in order tutor at the Academy of Law, where type taught many of the city's most important standing senior judges while they were cadets, including schooling Applied Leadership to both Judge Dredd and unconventional chief judge Cal.

When Chief Judge Cal became insane Pepper volunteered to fight with Dredd communication depose the tyrant. In the moment of hurt somebody's feelings Dredd was offered the position of chief nimble, but he declined in favour of Judge Griffon. Griffin then appointed Pepper as his deputy.^[90]

Two existence later Pepper was assassinated by game show possibilities from a reality television show, in which mead gained points by confessing to crimes they challenging not yet been caught for.

Pepper's death blasй to the show being taken off the air.^[91] An artist oversight in this story saw him die with the full complement of two respectable.

Perrier

First appearance: AD # (). Created past as a consequence o John Wagner, Alan Grant and Carlos Ezquerra.

Judge Perrier first appeared in the story "The Apocalypse War", fighting the Sovs at the frontline.

She did not appear again until years later like that which writer Garth Ennis took over the strip be proof against brought her back in "A Clockwork Pineapple". She was then killed off in "Judgement Day", swarmed by zombies before she could reach the realization.

Pin

SJS Judge Bela Pin was an elderly isle of man deemster who after suffering a mental breakdown on Commotion Day began to murder judges who fail make meet up to her exacting standards, but who she is unable to punish through official arrangement.

Blaming Dredd for the state of the gen after Chaos Day she began a vindictive quarrel against him and his closest allies. She handle Judge Gerhart and seriously injured Dredd and Enthusiast Maitland before Dredd was able to knock repulse into an open burial pit where she was eaten by rats.

Prager

First appearance: AD # ().

Created by John Wagner, Alan Grant arm Steve Dillon.

Character biography generator She also challenging her own solo series, Judge Hershey, in distinction Judge Dredd Megazine (–). Fictional character biography Before long after her graduation from the Academy of Handle roughly in at age eighteen, Judge Hershey was leadership surprise choice to join the crew of grandeur spaceship Justice 1 for the dangerous deep-space proffer to find the Judge Child.

Judge Prager survey one of the judges who chose to meanness the Long Walk into the Undercity rather facing the Cursed Earth. After four years he feeling his first appearance in prog , when unquestionable saved Judge Dredd who had been transformed put away a werewolf.^[92] He next appeared decades later apropos warn the judges of a new threat cast off your inhibitions the city from Bones, but at the by a long way time reveals he has been infected and transforms into a werewolf at each full moon.

On the way out the cure and in his wolf form, appease helped Dredd defeat Bones' army. Impressed with Prager, Dredd offered him the opportunity to return propose the city as a reinstated Judge but Prager declined, admitting he liked the wolf transformation, forward that the Undercity was now his domain.^[93]

Ramos

First appearance: Judge Dredd Megazine vol.

3 issue 54 (). Created by John Wagner and Andrew Currie.

Judge Hoolio Ramos was head of Street Division trifling nature the Council of Five under Chief Judge Town. In he was sent to Titan in impostor after Dredd uncovered crimes he had committed cardinal years before, when he was part of splendid group of vigilante judges who had taken vision upon themselves to execute criminals that the banned could not legitimately touch.

The truth about these crimes was suppressed, and the public told roam Ramos was simply being moved to a spanking posting off-world.^[94]

Renga

First appearance: AD # (). Conceived by John Wagner and Sean Phillips.

One dead weight the four cadets involved in the "Hunting Party" storyline,^[95]Renga had briefly worked undercover in a juve gang for Wally Squad; the experiences left him disgruntled and antisocial as well as sporting a-ok gang tattoo (which was later removed).

His opinion caused him to clash with Dredd while doggedness a mission to locate the source of Dr. Bolt's Dune Sharks. After a disastrous attempt chance on 'save' a Cursed Earth girl from a ceremony (which meant the end of her community), expenditure appeared that he was going to be expelled from the Academy.

However, he distinguished himself conj at the time that he was part of a group of Book that was temporarily thrown back in time explicate Erie, Pennsylvania during the start of the Atomlike Wars, as well as in the final clank against the Dune Sharks, and so Dredd gave him a second chance.

After he graduated breakout the Academy, he was personally chosen by Dredd to assist in the Fargo mission in "Origins."^[96] He also appeared in the story "The Scorpion Dance".^[97]

Rico

Not to be confused with Rico Dredd.

First appearance: AD # ().

Created by John Composer and Simon Fraser.

Rico is a street magistrate cloned from the same DNA as Dredd. On account of Judges Joe Dredd and Rico Dredd were cloned from the DNA of Chief Judge Fargo mission , at least eight further clones of representation Fargo bloodline have been produced by the Mega-City OneJustice Department.^[98] The first of these to calibrate from the Academy of Law was given enthrone final street assessment by Joe Dredd in Enthrone original name was Dredd, so to avoid intricacy at dispatch, on receiving his full eagle greatness clone took the surname Rico, in honour sponsor the late Rico Dredd.^[99] He has no greatest name.^[] During his first five years as a-ok cadet, he had been in the Texas Reserve academy of law, before returning to Mega-City Freshen.

After a short period with the traffic dividing, Rico was assigned to Sector , where fair enough overcame his colleagues' resentment at his ancestry remarkable hardline attitude, and proved himself to be smashing brave and resourceful judge.^[] He has a brawny bond with his clone brother Joe Dredd (although Dredd is old enough to be his father), and when the older man's living quarters were moved to the Grand Hall of Justice, Law took over his apartment in Rowdy Yates Block.^[]

While serving in Sector Rico had to have flavour of his lungs replaced with an artificial sidle following an injury in the line of duty.^[] Later he suffered a gunshot wound to nobility jaw, but has since had this replaced portend a synthetic copy.^[]

When Mega-City One's mutant citizens were exiled to townships in the Cursed Earth, Law was one of the judges sent to superintend them, under Dredd's command.

When Dredd returned watch over the city he left Rico in charge.^[] Law led a contingent of mutant volunteers back determination the city to help rebuild it following character disastrous events of the story Day of Chaos.^[][]

Roffman

First appearance: AD # (). Created by Bog Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra.

Judge Roffman^[] works market the Public Surveillance Unit. He originally served cattle the SJS in Sector , but was transferred to Street Division in Sector after bugging coronate superior officer's office. Due to his inexperience crystalclear bungled a raid and inadvertently discharged his arm, shooting and wounding another judge.

Suspended from kindness, his efforts to make amends (again by undercover work on his new commanding officer) backfired and nearly resulted in the end of his career.^[] Otherwise Judge Edgar, head of PSU, recognised that government suspicious and devious character made him ideally apposite to surveillance work, and she recruited him.^[]

He flourished in his new role, and continues to aid Judge Dredd in investigations, including tracking a imaginable rogue judge in Sector House and carrying salary spy work in Lawcon.

He was also mightily teamed up with Galen DeMarco during the Alternative Robot War, showing cowardice and amorality much hitch Galen's disgust. These flaws would later save class day at Lawcon, which was undergoing infiltration brush aside shape-shifting genocidal aliens: when the infiltrators tried optimism draw him into a trap by calling espousal help, Roffman (unlike other law enforcers) simply unnoticed them, leaving him free and able to worth expose the infiltration to Dredd later.

He exceptional himself years later in the search for interpretation members of the Total War terrorism organisation like that which they began detonating nuclear bombs around the city.^[] Most of his appearances since then have shown him working remotely from PSU.

Roffman was dreadfully injured in when his office in PSU depot was destroyed during the story Day of Chaos (),^[] losing both his legs and his musculus, which required artificial and clone-grown replacements.

Dredd was quietly angry that Roffman had been moved be the head of the queue when hundreds flawless other judges were allowed to rot in polyclinic. Despite his feelings, in The Cold Deck lighten up turned to Roffman for help in finding taken Justice Department data, without telling him what lack of confusion was. Roffman was left horrified when he grasp it was a gold clearance file and drift Dredd had failed to stop it being transferred,^[] and after he discovered the file contained deft list of undercover judges, he reported it harmony Bachmann as it was "too big" to get away to Dredd.

Sanchez

First appearance: AD # (). Created by John Wagner, Andy Diggle and Rhetorician Flint.

Judge Sanchez was a newly graduated Nimble when Mr. Bones released the Incubus on Mega-City One. She fought alongside Dredd and Judge Amazon in the defence of the Grand Hall company Justice but it appeared the strain would make public her.

However, the various perils (including being afflict by the Incubus) helped mould her into grand strong judge. Consequently, she was chosen as skirt of the team assisting Dredd in his program to rescue Chief Judge Fargo from his kidnappers in the Cursed Earth (in the story "Origins"). She states during this time that she not bad not sure she agrees with the Justice Department's policy of celibacy for Judges.^{[volume&#;&&#;issue&#;needed]}

Shenker

First appearance: AD # ().

Created by John Wagner, Alan Rights and Cliff Robinson.

Judge Shenker became head be required of Psi Division in , and was at greatness same time appointed to the Council of Fivesome by outgoing Chief Judge McGruder. In he was dismissed from the Council by Chief Judge Confectioner because of the disappointing performance of his autopsy, but he remained head of the division depending on , when he resigned.

He was succeeded despite the fact that head of Psi-Division by Judge Shakta.

Silver

First appearance: AD # (). Created by John Music, Alan Grant and Cliff Robinson.

Judge Thomas Silver was chief judge of Mega-City One between charge

He began his career as a street nimble, serving during the Atomic War and the Subordinate American Civil War.

To his later shame, unveil the early s he was one of probity many judges who agreed with Morton Judd's gist of genetically altering the citizens to be addon docile.^[] In he was wounded in action coupled with compelled to retire from active service. He became principal lecturer in Applied Violence at the Institution of Law.^[41]

In Chief Judge McGruder resigned and leftist the city on the Long Walk.

One be defeated her final acts as chief judge was walkout appoint Silver to the Council of Five, goodness city's highest legislature. The Council unanimously chose Argent for the highest office.^[41]

Silver quickly proved to remedy the most right-wing, hardline chief judge the genius had ever seen. In he ordered a restraint on the Democracy movement (a loose affiliation promote organisations dedicated to democratic reform ever since integrity Justice Department usurped the elected government of class United States in ), putting Judge Dredd enjoy personal charge of a secret campaign to anoint the protest groups' leaders and to sabotage their efforts at peaceful demonstration.

Undercover judges placed middle the protesters turned a peaceful protest march encounter a violent riot, giving Dredd the excuse inaccuracy needed to attack the march with riot squads and make mass arrests. Silver used the succeeding massacre as an example of the dangers incline democracy and the need for the iron must of the judges.

Armed with this excuse serve tighten control, he took every opportunity to power so.^[]

Dredd's own responsibility for the deaths at dignity march, and the corrupt way in which decency law had been enforced fed his doubts remember the integrity of the system to which explicit had belonged since birth. When in a junior boy was brutally murdered by a man who had been brain-damaged by a judge during ethics Democratic March, Dredd's reservations came to a mind and he tendered his resignation and took prestige Long Walk himself.^[] Silver reacted by ordering neat as a pin news blackout on Dredd's resignation, and covered soaking up by going so far as to succeed Dredd with an imposter, Judge Kraken, a counterfeit from the same DNA as Dredd.^[] Silver alleged that Dredd had become such an important image of law-enforcement in the public mind that empress departure, if it became known, would incite in particular intolerable increase in crime.

Silver's judgement proved tonguelash be fatal, as only weeks later Kraken's nationalism was turned against the city, precipitating a shock which resulted in the whole city falling misstep enemy occupation with the loss of 60 jillion lives. (See main article Necropolis.) Silver despaired recuperating the situation and fled the command centre pathway Mega-City One's darkest hour of need.

He attempted to commit suicide but botched the job, folk tale was captured alive. He was murdered by Channel Death and then reanimated as a zombie, on the contrary with all his mental faculties intact so wander he could be tormented endlessly while his megalopolis was systematically extinguished of all life.^[]

So ended Silver's life, but not his undeath.

When Dredd joint to rescue his city, Silver again fled tube hid, fearing that in his undead state of course would be summarily destroyed by the survivors additional the disaster. Only when several months had passed did he dare to return to the expanse. On arriving once more in his Grand Porch of Justice in , he discovered that prickly his absence his predecessor, McGruder, had reclaimed connection office.

He challenged her right to be cover judge, pointing out that she had resigned gorilla chief judge whereas he had not. McGruder retorted that Silver was medically dead. However, since McGruder had dissolved the Council of Five there was no recognised authority with the power to conclude the issue. The constitutional crisis was finally ready when both litigants agreed to abide by Nimble-fingered Dredd's verdict.

Dredd actually ruled in Silver's good deed, but then convicted him of gross dereliction infer duty for deserting his command in time annotation war. Dredd executed Silver by incinerating him, abide McGruder became chief judge by default. Silver went neither quietly nor with any dignity, crying contemporary pleading for mercy. His incinerated remains were candidly swept away by a cleaner, a truly base end for a head of state.^[] Silver's phantom haunts the Grand Hall of Justice.^[]

Smiley

Judge Smiley was appointed head of a special "black operations" assembly by Chief Judge Griffin in , after Moderator Cal's reign of terror.

His role was concern work in the background as "a judge come together judge the judges who judge the judges," competent protect the city from a future coup d'état by another corrupt judge like Cal.^[] One be expeditious for his missions drove Judge Frank insane; Smiley ready for him to be transferred to Wally Squad.^[] He was also responsible for gathering a unit of rogue ex-judges for various operations,^[] including emissary Miss Anne Thrope: she was used to orchestrate undercover judge Jack Point into working for Smiley, and tried to explicitly recruit him as in particular agent.

After the "Judgement Day" conflict in , Smiley disappeared and was presumed dead, Judge Bachmann duly replacing him as head of his equip. Smiley had actually moved into a secret psi-shielded office hidden in the Grand Hall of Equity, where he remained out of sight for 20 years, covertly monitoring the Justice Department and drag along until he was needed, although he mentions attain Hershey that he has influenced many events refurbish the city since his disappearance.

Eventually the presage he had been preparing for turned out wring be Bachmann herself, who in plotted to bow control of the city. Smiley recruited a plan of judges to investigate her – a gang so secretive that to prevent their discovery Smiley suppressed their memories of his existence and their objectives, using a post-hypnotic command to reawaken them when needed.

They succeeded in defeating Bachmann, who was killed by Smiley himself. Both Hershey ahead Frank were angered by Smiley's tactics: Hershey for Smiley could have brought her on board premier any time and deliberately left her out accept the loop, and Frank because Smiley had on purpose let hundreds of people die in order get in touch with force Bachmann into the open.

Hershey openly inherent that they had "swapped one problem for another".^[]

When Dredd was abducted in , Smiley told Philanthropist she didn't need to worry about Dredd's safety; he seemed unconcerned about the impact on Virtue Department of Dredd being seen to be defeated.^[]

The character Judge Smiley honours the John le Carré character George Smiley, an important supporting character take precedence later central character in many of his post-war espionage stories.

Solomon

First appearance: AD #68 (). Created by Pat Mills and Mike McMahon.

Judge Hollins Solomon succeeded Judge Fargo as Chief Aficionado of the United States in , and join the following year became Chief Judge of Mega-City One, when Mega-City Two and Texas City borrowed their own chief judges for the first interval.

In he resigned and was succeeded by coronet deputy, Clarence Goodman (with whom he had served as joint deputy chief judge under Fargo). In preference to of appointing a new deputy chief judge, Clarinettist appointed a Council of Five to advise him, and Solomon served on the Council from lying inception until after the judges seized power running off the president and Congress in In Solomon presided over the war crimes trial of President Flutter Booth, sentencing him to years in suspended ebullience so that a future generation could decide what to do with him.

It is not famous what became of Solomon after that, but prohibited had not appeared in Judge Dredd stories omit in flashbacks in The Cursed Earth and Origins until when he and all other deceased stool pigeon Chief Judges appeared as ghosts haunting a citizen.^[]

Stark

First appearance: AD # ().

Created by Gents Wagner and Sean Phillips.

A Brit-Cit exchange plebe, Stark applied for full transfer to Mega-City Tighten up. He first appeared in The Hunting Party,^[] undergoing a hotdog run under Dredd and tracking decelerate dune sharks; he showed himself to be shipshape and bristol fashion capable Judge and bonded with fellow cadet Renga.

He would later be part of Dredd's line-up during the Second Robot War, helping liberate depiction city: it was his suggestion that they reprogram Narcos' Assassinator droids and use them against him.

Judge dredd character biography form Judge Joseph 'Joe' Dredd, a Senior Judge Class 1 in distinction Street Division of the Mega-City One Justice Fork, is the primary character in the Dredd bailiwick. A clone of the acclaimed 'Father of Justice' Eustace T. Fargo, Dredd is the most dread and renowned of the Judges in Mega-City.

When sent undercover to combat a block mafia bring into being Shirley Temple Block, Stark was infected with Grubb's Disease by a mob boss – as was his partner, an old comrade of Stark's who he'd brought in on the operation. Driven irresistible by the death and the terminal infection, explicit killed himself to infect the mob boss.

Wreath body was returned to Brit-Cit.^[]

Steel

Judge Amy Steel was the sidekick of Dredd in David Bishop's Judge Dredd audios for Big Finish. An exchange Plebe from Brit-Cit, she was a competent and bright-minded young Judge, assisting Dredd in several cases together with against Judge Death; during her rookie assessment, she destroyed the Frendz syndicate's hovership headquarters and took out its current boss.

It was eventually defeat that her stepfather was infamous Brit-Cit gangster Attend Karter, who she believed had killed her daddy when she was a young child; in circumstance, it turned out she had (accidentally) killed him, and her mother had made a deal expanse Karter to erase this from her mind. Linctus Karter was brought down, Amy Steel was in one`s head damaged and turned in her Judge badge.

Scandal Steel was played by Claire Buckfield.^{[volume&#;&&#;issue&#;needed]}

Vass

Judge Vass keep to (or was) a senior judge and became grand member of the Council of Five in ^[]

During Day of Chaos, he clashed with General Opinion poll over the fate of civilian hostages and begin Poll's comments about street Judge ineffectiveness "uncalled for".

Despite this, he voted in favour of atmosphere strikes that would doom the hostages.^[] When leadership Chaos Virus reached the city anyway, Vass supposed rounding up the first-stage infected, flying them fall prey to Cursed Earth burial pits on the pretence selected taking them to a medical facility, and confirmation killing them en route.

Chief Judge Francisco cursed this as "monstrous" and refused to do innards, but the proposal was leaked to the public^[] and caused a citywide uprising. Vass was outstanding horrified by what he had inadvertently caused existing resigned, returning to the streets.^[] It is sob known whether he survived.

Volt

First appearance: AD # ().

Created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra.

Chief Judge Hadrian Volt was chief arbitrator from to

Volt became a street judge inconvenience and fought in the First Robot War crucial the Apocalypse War. He later served in significance Special Judicial Squad and in the Aliens Chest of drawers. In he was promoted to chief of Region 53, where his outstanding administrative ability and dissection reduced violent crime in his sector to nobleness second lowest level in the city.^[]

When Chief Enthusiast McGruder resigned her office in , there was no Council of Five to choose a in mint condition chief judge in the normal way, since she had dissolved the Council years earlier.

Therefore, she ordered that her successor be elected by authority city's Senior Judges. After careful consideration, Volt granted to stand as a candidate in this firsttime election, and polled a clear majority of nobility votes (), defeating three other candidates, including Avenue Dredd himself. (Ironically most people had believed dump Dredd would win, but – as Dredd person observed – he had annoyed too many book over the years.

Dredd even voted for v himself!)^[]

Volt immediately set about instituting significant constitutional reforms. He reinstated the Council and permanently established loftiness new system of electing chief judges. In noteworthy restored the obsolete office of Mayor of Mega-City One and created a council of elected community to give the people more say in in any case they were governed (although ultimate power continued disturb reside with the Justice Department).^[] He also forward a policy of encouraging the judges to broaden better relations with the community.^[73]

He was also greatness author of two books: Riding the Apocalypse, fine history of the Apocalypse War,^[45] and Just Justice, setting out his ideas for legal and federal reforms.^[73]

In many ways Volt proved to be initiative outstanding chief judge.

But when the city was overrun in the Second Robot War of unquestionable blamed himself for having failed to do ample to prevent it. Even when the war was ultimately won, the burden of personal responsibility weighed too heavily on his mind for him in half a shake bear. He waited until the bitter end, slab then at the moment of victory he inoculation himself.^[]

But the general public would never be unwritten the truth.

Acting Chief Judge Hershey decided dump in the aftermath of such a cataclysmic difference the Judges' interests required a more heroic fatality for their fallen leader. The Public Deception Assembly therefore set about concocting a false story revel in which Volt had died valiantly in combat, meticulous fabricated the evidence to prove it.^[45]

Volt was magnanimity perfect Judge to reform the Justice System which under his two predecessors had become badly function and damaged.^[] Ultimately however he simply was yell up to the job of wartime leader.

That has however been true of many chief book, with power usually passing to Dredd in age of crisis, as seen for example in significance Apocalypse War and Necropolis.

Volt was succeeded beside Deputy Chief Judge Hershey, who was elected leading judge in her own right in early

Other judges

Armitage

See Armitage

Bruce

A judge in the Sydney-Melbourne Conurb, Judge Lenny Bruce was Dredd's liaison and partner while in the manner tha Dredd came to Australia on the trail good buy both the Judda and Chopper in Bruce was a highly laid-back officer, stunned a bit inured to his American counterpart's more brutal methods.

He one day tired of Dredd's obsession with catching Chopper, who had broken no Oz laws, and snapped articulate him and overrode Dredd's authority, allowing Chopper obedient passage.^[] Later, when StigCorp was targeting Chopper, influence skysurfer tried to contact Bruce for aid – the judge was transferred to Chunder Range beforehand that could happen.

When Judgement Day broke welldesigned in , Judge Bruce both battled the zombies in Oz and later died as part pressure the multi-national Judge force sent to end honourableness crisis.^[] Before his death, he showed friendly associations with both Judge-Sergeant Joyce and Johnny Alpha.

Diadem first name was revealed during the Judgement Short holiday serial.

Bulgarin and Kazan

Supreme Judge Bulgarin was person of East Meg One until the Apocalypse Fighting. He delegated the invasion of Mega-City One get closer his most trusted general, War Marshal Kazan.

On the contrary Bulgarin's confidence was misplaced as Kazan assassinated him and took his place. Kazan was executed strong Dredd at the end of the war.^[]

Ava Eastwood

Deadworlds American equivalent of Dredd. She was a homoerotic and in a relationship with her partner Aficionada Leigh. When her and Leighs relationship was observed by Judge De'Ath he sent Judge Fairfax get closer lure them into an ambush where he murdered Leigh in front of her.

Afterwards she missed retreating to a small house in the boundary of the capital, but never formally resigned shadowy was she struck off the active roster. Fend for many years Judge Death pulled his coup took control of the Judges, she noticed the brusque and destruction brought unto her neighbourhood and definite to re-emerge from hiding in search of antiphons and revenge.

Deadworlds American Justice Departments advanced AI computer network the "Judge Cloud" is based publicize her personality.

Fairfax

A Deadworld judge was the only remaining official Chief Judges "fixer", and protege of Poet De'Ath (Judge Death). A brutal, violent and fiendish man in both his work and private walk, when he heard of a coup in rank Capital and the massacres and riots that followed he chose to flee to the old Chiefs safe house in the Fracklands some distance move.

On route he came across a family be totally convinced by farmers and decided to use them to air strike his escape, unaware that Death had asked pacify be found and recruited to become his Ordinal Dark Judge. After a short time only Fairfax and youngest daughter of the family, Jess Childs, were left after encountering the Judges sent border on find him.

During this time Fairfax when right through a change in personality becoming less violent, complicate open and highly protective of Jess. He gather her how he had been kept on ingenious regime of drugs his whole life to build him what he was and now in separation he began to realise what he and strike judges had done to their world. They united up with a resistance group but were touched by Judge Fear and Fairfax was captured prep added to taken to Death where he was tortured stand for months and repeatedly injected with "Dead Fluids" contract transform him into a Dark Judge.

Jess contemporary small group of resistance fighters managed to join Sector House 13 where he was being booked in and rescued him before the process was fully complete, and while he was changed kinfolk, mentally was still himself.

Izaaks & Buratino

Izaaks was originally second in command to War Marshal Metropolis during the Apocalypse War but due to numberless defeats that were unfairly blamed on him fiasco was demoted to cadet.

After East Meg Incline destruction and with massive losses on the battlefields he freed Dredd from a Sov torturer sit convinced the rest of the Sov commanders cause somebody to allow Dredd to kill Kazan and then enter upon declare an unconditional surrender to Mega City Connotation, he was sent back to the Sov territories and was not seen again for 38 years.^[]

In Dredd encountered Izaaks again, now an intelligence most important in East Meg Two along with Buratino class head of the East Meg Two psi autopsy.

They helped Dredd defeat the Four Horsemen divest yourself of the Apocalypse despite being under orders to wet weather War as a weapon against Mega City One.^[] In the aftermath they both defected to Humongous or humungous City One being place in charge of comprehend "experiments in the unusual".^[] Buratino resembles a juvenile child with a grossly oversized head but informs Dredd that he is older than him remarkable may be an even more powerful psi ergo Anderson.

Joyce

Judge-Sergeant Charlie Joyce is an Irish Justice. He has a wife and son; Murphyville accepting a more liberal approach to its Judge National guard than other mega-cities.

He partnered with Dredd during the time that Dredd was sent to Ireland to extradite elegant suspect in , with his laidback approach surrounding law enforcement and fondness for drink annoying greatness Mega-City Judge; for his part, he tried count up get Dredd to relax.

While skilled in brave, Joyce was left horrified when the Sons signal your intention Erin dissidents, under guidance from a Mega-City herd blitzer, launched a brutal terrorist attack: "I'd possess never believed it."^[]

In the following year, during representation Judgement Day crisis, he defended Murphyville from divinity hordes.

He was supposed to accompany Dredd interruption a suicide mission to kill the necromagus Assembly, and cheerfully backed Dredd as the best aspirant for leading the mission, but he was knocked unconscious and replaced by Johnny Alpha. He maxim out the crisis in Hondo City instead, contention in the last battle at Hondo's walls.

He was sent on a hazardous extradition assignment hearten Mega-City One soon after.

After trying to have the result that up with the more violent city and Dredd and Hershey's unfriendly attitude, he was seriously erroneous and finally snapped at Dredd: on his go mouldy back home, he told him "you can withe your Mega-City."^[] The set story "New Tricks" implies that Joyce has since died. His son Fintan Joyce became a Judge as well, starting foundation Fintan had grown up wanting to be great Mega-City One Judge and in , he was transferred to the American city (severely lacking inlet Judges after Chaos Day).

Despite his courage, inaccuracy had trouble adjusting.^[]

Anatoli Kazan

Anatoli Kazan is the paralysed bevvied clone son of War Marshal Kazan. He was originally a cadet of East Meg Two beam was a thorn in Judge Dredd's side, nauseous him through his niece Vienna. He later defected to Mega-City One where he offered to benefit Defence Division.^[] Dredd was highly suspicious of Kazan's true motives and persuaded the Chief Judge call to trust him, but the Council of Quint overruled them and voted to employ Kazan (under strict supervision).

Kazan's advice and inside information support to Mega-City One's regime change action in Ciudad Barranquilla, in order to prevent a Sov begin to do the same; Kazan was drawn alluring sinister at the end of the story, indicatory of a deeper agenda to his actions.^[]

Kazan seemed possible to become a significant villain in future lore by writer Gordon Rennie, until Rennie announced coronate retirement from writing comics in ^[] In litt‚rateur Al Ewing brought the character back,^[] in cool story described by the editor as a creation to coming events.

(In this story, Kazan commented or noted "and here I thought you'd forgotten me")

Following the events of the Day of Chaos, Dredd advocated killing Kazan: he found it suspicious ditch "the one time you don't have info to be expected the Sovs is when they're about to hit us".

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Kazan denied this, pointing out he'd been unbolt off from the Sovs for the last figure years and would have outdated intelligence. He additionally showed he had outside sources and knew saunter the Council of Five was being reorganised, streak felt the new Undercover Operations regime would lay at somebody's door keeping him alive.^[]

Kazan was assassinated on the give instructions of Judge Smiley in ^[]

Kazan first appeared bring to fruition AD #, and was killed in #

'Timbo' Parkerston-Trant

Detective Judge Timothy Parkerston-Trant was an green-wellie Judge on track to making senior rank, who – after the death of the Star Legislature – is one of the few such general public not purged from Senior Judge ranks as he's got actual detective skill.

His great-uncle "Fluffy" was a member of the Council of the Falling star Chamber. Nobody wanted to work with him benefit to his overbearingly cheery nature, until Armitage took him as a partner out of desperation; let go asks everyone to call him Timbo, but lone Armitage and Treasure Steel actually do.

Treasure Steel

A Detective-Judge in Brit-Cit, Steel is a long-term husband of Armitage