District judge (magistrates' court) and social mobility ambassador
Tan Ikram became a deputy district judge in 2003 and a district judge (magistrates’ court) on the South Eastern Circuit in 2009.
In 2017, he was appointed deputy senior district judge (chief magistrate).
He was called to the bar in 1990 and later practised as a solicitor specialising in fraud, serious and complex crime.
Tan was a legal assessor to the Nursing and Midwifery Council Professional Conduct Committee and served as the president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association in 2007 to 2008.