Deputy Chief Judge Hershey

Barbara Hershey is a senior Judge in Mega-City One's Justice Department, rising through the ranks to become Deputy Chief Judge alongside figures like Dredd, McGruder, and Volt. A tough, capable law enforcer, she wields significant political and judicial authority in the dystopian future city.

Rising through the ranks of Mega-City One's formidable Justice Department, Deputy Chief Judge Hershey made her debut in the pages of Judge Dredd the Megazine in 1992 — firmly a creature of the Copper/Modern Age of British comics at their most ambitious. Over a span of 26 years across 2000 AD, the Megazine, and the Complete Case Files, she carved out a place at the very highest levels of judicial power, keeping company with the likes of Judge Dredd himself, Chief Judges McGruder and Volt, and Galen DeMarco. For collectors who love their characters steeped in the gritty, satirical world of Dredd's dystopian future, Hershey represents exactly the kind of authority-and-consequence storytelling that made Fleetway's titles so compelling — a figure worth tracking down across her appearances for anyone serious about the deeper bench of Mega-City One.