Elizabeth Anne Finlay Gardiner, (born 19 March 1966) is a British solicitor and senior civil servant who has served as the First Parliamentary Counsel since November 2015.Gardiner has worked at the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel since 1991, and as a director-general-graded Parliamentary Counsel from 2003 until her promotion in 2015, where she succeeded Richard Heaton.
As of September 2015, as a Director-General Gardiner was paid a salary of between £175,000 and £179,999, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.Gardiner was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 2013.In January 2019, Gardiner became the Civil Service Champion for the Civil Service Retirement Fellowship.