Lies van Houten, Baroness van Houten of Enschede

Lies Marjorie Maria Magdalena Heemstra-Van Houten, Baroness van Houten of Enschede, OS, PC, RS (Rt Hon.) (born 3 December, 1941) is a Dutch Saxonian legal academic, judge, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Seafaring Confederation as well as the Justice for Dutch Lower Saxony on the same Court.

In 1976 she became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Dutch Lower Saxony, taking over the place of Gerard Luid, who retired at the age of 89. Here she stayed until 1980, when she was appointed to represent the State of Dutch Lower Saxony on the Supreme Court of the Seafaring Confederation. As she became a Justice of the Supreme Court, her title officially changed to Baroness of her place of residence, at that time Enschede. She thus became The Baroness van Houten of Enschede (Dutch: De Barones van Houten van Enschede, Dutch Low Saxon: De Baronesse van Houten van Eanske, Frisian: De Baronesse van Houten fan Ynskedee).