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Susan Mary Kiefel AC KC (/ ˈ k iː f əl /; [1] [2] born 1954) is an Australian lawyer and barrister who was the 13th Chief Justice of Australia from 2017 to 2023. She concurrently served on the High Court of Australia from 2007 to 2023, previously being a judge of both the Supreme Court of Queensland and the Federal Court of Australia.
There have been 57 justices of the High Court; fifty have been men and seven women. The first female justice was Mary Gaudron who was a justice from 1987 to 2003. Susan Crennan was a justice from 2005 to 2015, and Virginia Bell from 2009 to 2021. Susan Kiefel was the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of Australia. She was appointed in ...
Susan Kiefel: 31 January 2017 [6] Justice of the High Court: Mary Gaudron: 6 February 1987 [7] Chief Justice of the Federal Court: Debra Mortimer: 7 April 2023 [8] Judge of the Federal Court: Deirdre O'Connor: 1 July 1990 [9] President of the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal: Deirdre O'Connor: 1 July 1990 [10]
Susan Kiefel (1975): First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (2016) Pat O'Shane (1976): [17] First Aboriginal (female) to earn a law degree and become a barrister and magistrate (c. 1986) in Australia; Margaret McMurdo (1976): [18] First female to serve as the president of an appellate court in ...
There have been 49 men and seven women who have been appointed as justices of the High Court of Australia.Together, the judges are alumni of six Australian universities, two universities in the United Kingdom, three in the United States of America and one Barristers' Admission Board.
Susan Mary Viney: For service to youth through the Guiding movement, and to the community. Gordon Charles Wallace: For service to youth through The Boys' Brigade Queensland. Sister Anna Warlow: For service to the Catholic Church, and to St Paul's Community House of Welcome. Gordon Kerion Watson: For service to the community, and to local ...
Susan Powter, ’90s Stop the Insanity! fitness guru, is returning to the spotlight after disappearing for over 30 years. She is telling her story via a self-published memoir, And Then Em Died ...
2017 – Susan Kiefel became the first female Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. 2019 – Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat became the first female Chief Justice of Malaysia. 2022 – Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first African-American woman to serve as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. [40]