List of judges of the Family Court of Australia

Judges of the Family Court of Australia, include the Chief Justice,[1] Deputy Chief Justice,[2] Judges of the Appeal Division,[3] current,[4] and former judges as of 24 October 2018.[5] They include judges who hold a concurrent commission with the Family Court of Western Australia.[6]

Position Name Appointment
commenced 		Appointment
ended 		Term Comments Notes
Chief Justice Elizabeth Evatt 5 January 1976 5 January 1988 12 years, 0 days
Alastair Nicholson 1 February 1988 2 July 2004 16 years, 152 days
Diana Bryant 5 July 2004 12 October 2017 13 years, 99 days
John Pascoe 13 October 2017 9 December 2018 1 year, 57 days [7]
Will Alstergren 10 December 2018 5 years, 340 days Joint commission as Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia [8]
Deputy Chief Justice John Faulks 25 June 2004 30 October 2016 12 years, 127 days [9]
Robert McClelland 10 December 2018 5 years, 339 days [10]
Judge of the Appeals Division Steven Strickland 22 November 1999 24 years, 357 days
Garry Watts 14 April 2005 19 years, 213 days
Judith Ryan 31 July 2006 18 years, 105 days
Peter Murphy 11 October 2007 1 May 2019 11 years, 202 days
Stewart Austin 13 July 2009 15 years, 123 days
Ann Ainslie-Wallace 9 July 2010 14 years, 127 days
Michael Kent 12 July 2011 13 years, 124 days
Murray Aldridge 13 December 2012 11 years, 336 days
Peter Tree 14 January 2013 11 years, 304 days [11]
Judge Austin Asche 5 January 1976 3 April 1986 10 years, 88 days
John Marshall 5 January 1976 5 September 1982 6 years, 243 days
Kenneth Pawley 5 January 1976 10 January 1986 10 years, 5 days
Alan Demack 21 January 1976 15 January 1978 1 year, 359 days
Ray Watson 21 January 1976 1 April 1994 18 years, 70 days
John Fogarty 3 February 1976 2 October 1998 22 years, 241 days
Harry Emery 6 February 1976 4 July 1988 12 years, 149 days
Kemeri Murray 6 February 1976 16 December 2006 30 years, 313 days
Rodney Charles Wood 9 February 1976 5 September 1991 15 years, 208 days
Basil Hogan 27 February 1976 11 December 1988 12 years, 288 days
Margaret Lusink 27 February 1976 13 August 1988 12 years, 168 days
Travis Lindenmayer 27 February 1976 31 December 2002 26 years, 307 days
Thomas McGovern 27 February 1976 26 October 1996 20 years, 242 days
Graham Bell 27 February 1976 27 February 2015 39 years, 0 days
William Griffith Dovey 27 February 1976 31 May 1989 13 years, 93 days
William Simpson 11 June 1976 19 October 1991 15 years, 130 days
Bryce Ross-Jones 11 June 1976 4 February 1995 18 years, 238 days
Thomas Joske 11 June 1976 22 November 2005 29 years, 164 days
Josephine Maxwell 21 June 1976 16 July 1999 23 years, 25 days
Steven Strauss 12 July 1976 3 January 1994 17 years, 175 days
John Gun 19 July 1976 20 February 1998 21 years, 223 days
Joseph Goldstein 15 October 1976 28 February 1979 2 years, 136 days
Hubert Frederico 15 October 1976 24 April 2003 26 years, 191 days
Geoffrey Walsh 4 January 1977 3 June 1995 18 years, 150 days
Adrian Smithers 17 January 1977 15 March 2002 25 years, 57 days
Adrian Cook 17 January 1977 15 March 2002 13 years, 231 days
Gordon Yuill 13 April 1977 10 February 1990 12 years, 303 days
Robert Bulley 18 April 1977 17 July 1995 18 years, 90 days
David Tonge 28 October 1977 2 January 1987 9 years, 66 days
David Opas 31 October 1977 23 June 1980 2 years, 236 days
Brian Treyvaud 3 November 1977 3 March 1995 17 years, 120 days
Ernie Lambert 10 November 1977 10 August 1990 12 years, 273 days
Edward Butler 16 November 1977 30 June 1997 19 years, 226 days
William David Nobbs 18 November 1977 4 May 1981 3 years, 169 days
Peter Underhill 31 January 1978 31 December 1997 19 years, 334 days
John Ellis 31 January 1978 23 August 2004 26 years, 205 days
John Gibson 10 July 1978 14 August 1985 7 years, 35 days
Eric Baker 10 July 1978 19 January 1999 20 years, 193 days
Peter Nygh 2 July 1979 10 July 1993 14 years, 8 days
Peter Hase 10 December 1979 27 January 1998 18 years, 48 days
John Elliott 19 December 1979 1 May 1991 11 years, 133 days
Richard Gee 25 July 1980 1 August 1998 18 years, 7 days
David Haese 4 September 1981 1 August 1995 13 years, 331 days
Doreen Bulbeck 11 January 1982 26 January 1998 16 years, 15 days
Neil Buckley 7 February 1983 31 August 2006 23 years, 205 days
Margaret Renaud 8 September 1983 28 August 1998 14 years, 354 days
James Barry 12 December 1983 27 June 2011 27 years, 197 days
John Purdy 23 August 1984 23 September 2005 21 years, 31 days
Rodney Purvis 11 March 1985 30 March 1998 13 years, 19 days
John Wilczek 1 November 1985 11 February 2005 19 years, 102 days
Warwick Rourke 31 January 1986 5 February 2001 15 years, 5 days
Hugh Burton 5 June 1986 30 September 1999 13 years, 117 days
Joseph Kay 12 June 1986 25 February 2008 21 years, 258 days
Graham Mullane 28 July 1986 30 September 2008 22 years, 64 days
Mary Jane Lawrie 21 August 1986 9 March 2007 20 years, 200 days
Anthony Graham 5 June 1987 15 July 1998 11 years, 40 days
Alwynne Rowlands 13 April 1988 10 January 2006 17 years, 272 days
Peter Moss 2 May 1988 2 July 2000 12 years, 61 days
John Cohen 1 February 1989 4 March 2011 22 years, 31 days
Mary Finn 2 July 1990 3 July 2016 26 years, 1 day
Nahum Mushin 26 October 1990 30 November 2011 21 years, 35 days
Colleen Moore 18 April 1991 31 July 2009 18 years, 104 days
Ian Coleman 18 April 1991 8 May 2013 22 years, 20 days
Peter Hilton 25 July 1991 6 June 2000 8 years, 317 days
Michael Hannon 26 August 1991 20 September 2005 14 years, 25 days
Bernard Warnick 2 September 1991 31 March 2010 18 years, 210 days
Richard Chisholm 21 September 1993 14 June 2004 10 years, 267 days
Sally Brown 23 November 1993 2 June 2010 16 years, 191 days
Brian Jordan 27 July 1994 31 December 2009 15 years, 157 days
Stephen O'Ryan 11 October 1994 15 March 2011 16 years, 155 days
John Faulks 11 October 1994 25 June 2004 9 years, 258 days Promoted to Deputy Chief Justice
Linda Dessau 20 June 1995 21 June 2013 18 years, 1 day
Susan Morgan 30 June 1995 24 February 2006 10 years, 239 days
Michelle May 5 September 1995 31 July 2017 21 years, 329 days
Christine Dawe 3 March 1997 3 March 2017 20 years, 0 days
John Steele 1 December 1997 15 January 2008 10 years, 45 days
John Jerrard 20 March 1998 29 May 2002 4 years, 70 days
Rodney Burr 2 April 1998 25 May 2012 14 years, 53 days
Paul Guest 1 May 1998 5 May 2008 10 years, 4 days
Heather Carter 1 June 1998 18 July 2008 10 years, 47 days
Lloyd Waddy 1 July 1998 22 December 2009 11 years, 174 days
Ann Robinson 7 September 1998 19 June 2002 3 years, 285 days
Michael Watt 14 December 1998 15 December 2008 10 years, 1 day
Peter Rose 21 December 1998 1 July 2011 12 years, 192 days
Robyn Flohm 17 May 1999 29 April 2010 10 years, 347 days
David Collier 19 July 1999 23 July 2013 14 years, 4 days
Jennifer Boland 29 October 1999 4 February 2011 11 years, 98 days
Robert Monteith 28 November 2000 30 November 2011 11 years, 2 days
Janine Stevenson 18 May 2001 23 years, 179 days
Mark Le Poer Trench 10 October 2001 1 November 2018 17 years, 22 days [12]
Peter Young 26 August 2002 9 May 2013 10 years, 256 days
Elizabeth O'Reilly 10 January 2003 31 January 2013 10 years, 21 days
Tim Carmody 7 July 2003 8 July 2008 5 years, 1 day
Stephen Thackray 1 December 2004 6 January 2019 14 years, 36 days Chief Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia [13]
Robert Benjamin 19 August 2005 19 years, 86 days
Victoria Bennett 30 November 2005 18 years, 349 days
Paul Cronin 20 December 2006 18 April 2019 12 years, 119 days
Stuart Fowler 16 November 2007 14 November 2013 5 years, 363 days [5]
Simon Moncrieff 31 August 2009 15 years, 74 days Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
Margaret Cleary 8 July 2010 14 years, 128 days
William Johnston 12 July 2010 4 September 2019 14 years, 124 days [14]
Ian Loughnan 12 July 2010 14 years, 124 days
Colin Forrest 2 February 2011 13 years, 285 days
Kirsty Macmillan 14 December 2011 12 years, 335 days
Anne Rees 15 December 2011 12 years, 334 days
Susan Duncanson 6 December 2012 11 years, 343 days Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
John Walters 6 December 2012 11 years, 343 days Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
Jenny Hogan 14 January 2013 11 years, 304 days
Jennifer Coate 31 January 2013 8 February 2019 6 years, 25 days [5]
David Berman 18 July 2013 11 years, 118 days
Sharon Johns 29 July 2013 11 years, 107 days
Garry Foster 8 August 2013 11 years, 97 days
Christine Thornton 12 August 2013 14 December 2018 5 years, 124 days [5]
Hilary Hannam 12 August 2013 11 years, 92 days
Catherine Carew 7 March 2016 8 years, 251 days
Richard O'Brien 12 April 2016 8 years, 215 days Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
Shane Gill 16 May 2016 8 years, 181 days
Michael Baumann 11 January 2018 6 years, 307 days
Gail Sutherland 16 March 2018 6 years, 242 days Chief Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
Louise Henderson 8 February 2019 5 years, 279 days
Jillian Williams 8 February 2019 5 years, 279 days
Ciara Tyson 22 February 2019 5 years, 265 days Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
Joshua Wilson 11 March 2019 5 years, 247 days
Robert Harper 11 March 2019 5 years, 247 days
Christine Mead 25 March 2019 5 years, 233 days
Norah Hartnett 25 March 2019 5 years, 233 days
Timothy McEvoy 27 March 2019 5 years, 231 days

References

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  1. ^ "Chief Justice". Family Court of Australia. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Deputy Chief Justice". Family Court of Australia. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Judges of the Appeals Division". Family Court of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Judges of the Family Court". Family Court of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d "Former judges of the Family Court". Family Court of Australia. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Judges of the Family Court of Western Australia". Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Appointments of new Chief Justice of the Family Court and Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit Court". Attorney-General of Australia. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Appointments of Chief Justice and Deputy Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia". www.attorneygeneral.gov.au. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Family Court of Australia Annual Report 2013-14" (PDF). Family Court of Australia. Commonwealth of Australia. p. 102. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  10. ^ "Deputy Chief Justice - Family Court of Australia". www.familycourt.gov.au. Nigel Bowen Commonwealth Law Courts, Canberra, Australia. Family Court of Australia. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Home | Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia".
  12. ^ "The Bar Association | InBrief". inbrief.nswbar.asn.au. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  13. ^ "WA Family court Chief Judge to retire". WAtoday. 11 August 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  14. ^ "Home | Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia".
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