Michaela Tabb

Michaela Tabb is a Scottish snooker and pool referee and a former pool player, born on 11 December 1967 in Bath, England, who moved to Scotland as a small child. In the 1990s and early 2000s she competed on the women's eight-ball pool circuit, winning a number of titles as a solo competitor and as a member, and later captain, of the Scottish Ladies' Pool Team. She became a professional pool referee in 1997 and officiated at the WPA World Nine-ball Championship and the Mosconi Cup. From 2001 she refereed snooker on the World Snooker Tour, becoming the first woman to referee a ranking tournament in 2002 and the first to referee a World Snooker Championship final, in 2009 and again in 2012. She retired from refereeing standard snooker events in 2025.