List of first women lawyers and judges in Australia and Oceania

This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Australia and Oceania. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as obtaining a law degree or becoming a political figure.

American Samoa (USA)

  • Barbara A. Sena Waite (c. 1970s):[1] First female lawyer in American Samoa
  • Mere Tuiasosopo Betham:[2][3][4] First female judge (native-born) in American Samoa (upon her appointment as an Associate Judge of the High Court of American Samoa in 1991)

Australia

  • Flos Greig (1905):[5] First female barrister in Australia
  • Agnes McWhinney (1915): First female solicitor in Australia (upon being called to the Queensland Bar)
  • Edith Cowan:[6] First female magistrate in Australia (1920)
  • Elizabeth Evatt (1956):[7] First female appointed as a Judge of the Family Court of Australia and serve as its Chief Justice (1976)
  • Mahla Pearlman (1960):[8] First female appointed as a Chief Judge of any jurisdiction in Australia (upon her appointed as the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales in 1992)
  • Roma Mitchell (1962):[9][10][11][12] First female judge in Australia (1965). She was also the first female Queen's Counsel (QC) in South Australia and Governor of South Australia (1991).
  • Margaret Reid (c. 1965):[13] First female (a lawyer) elected as the President of the Australian Senate (1996-2002)
  • Diana Bryant (1970):[14] First female appointed as the Chief Federal Magistrate of Australia (2000)
  • Deidre O'Connor (1974):[15] First female appointed as a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1990)
  • Marilyn Warren (1975): First female justice appointed as a Chief Justice in Australia (upon her appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2003)
  • Susan Kiefel (1975): First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (2016). She was also the first female Queen's Counsel (QC) in Queensland and the first female appointed as a Justice of the Norfolk Island Supreme Court (2004).
  • Margaret McMurdo (1976):[16] First female to serve as the president of an appellate court in Australia (upon her appointment as the President of the Queensland Court of Appeal in 1998)
  • Amanda Vanstone (c. 1980s):[17] First female (a lawyer) to serve as the Minister for Justice (title change to Minister for Justice and Customs during her tenure) of Australia (1997-2001)
  • Mary Gaudron (1981):[18] First female appointed as a Justice of the High Court in Australia (1987). She was also the first female Queen's Counsel (QC) in New South Wales.
  • Julie Bishop (c. 1983):[19] First female (a lawyer) to serve as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Australia (2013)
  • Norah Hartnett, Christine Mead, Judy Ryan:[20] First females appointed as Federal Magistrates for the Federal Circuit Court of Australia (2000)
  • Nicola Roxon:[21] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Australia (2011-2013)
  • Annastacia Palaszczuk:[22] First female (a solicitor) to serve as the Leader of the Opposition in Australia (2012)

Firsts in a particular region in Australia

Federated states

New South Wales
  • Marie Beuzeville Byles (1924):[23] First female solicitor in New South Wales, Australia
  • Phyllis M. Boissier:[24] First female Justice of the Peace in New South Wales, Australia (c. 1920s)
  • Jane Mathews (1961):[25] First female to serve as a crown prosecutor in New South Wales (1978). She later became the first female appointed as a Judge of the New South Wales District Court (1980) and Judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court (1987).
  • Ella Simon:[26] First Aboriginal female Justice of the Peace in New South Wales (1962)
  • Margaret Sleeman:[27][28] First female magistrate in New South Wales, Australia (1970)
  • Margaret Beazley (1974):[29] First female appointed as Judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1996) and serve as its President (2013)
  • Leone Glynn:[30] First female appointed as a Judge of the Industrial Court in New South Wales (1980)
  • Gabrielle Upton (1988):[31] First female Attorney General of New South Wales (2015)
Queensland
  • Agnes McWhinney (1915): First female solicitor in Queensland, Australia
  • Matilda Hennessey:[32][33][34] First female Justice of the Peace in Queensland, Australia (1918)
  • Margaret White:[35] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland (1992)
  • Patsy Wolfe:[36] First female appointed as the Chief Judge of the District Court (1999)
  • Linda Lavarch:[37] First female Attorney General of Queensland (2005-2006)
  • Catherine Holmes (1982):[38] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland (2015)
South Australia
  • Mary Kitson (1917):[39] First female lawyer in South Australia
  • Daisy Bates:[40] First female Justice of the Peace in South Australia and Western Australia (c. 1920)
  • Kemeri Murray:[41] First female appointed as a Judge of the District Court in South Australia (1973)
  • Vickie Chapman (1979):[42] First female Attorney General of South Australia (2018)
  • Elizabeth Bolton (1985):[43] First female appointed as the South Australian Chief Magistrate (2007)
Tasmania
  • Helen McPhee (1935):[44] First female lawyer in Tasmania
  • Mabel Miller (1927):[45] One of the first females (a barrister) to be elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1955)
  • Helen Wood:[46][47] First female magistrate in Tasmania
  • Shan Tennent (1977):[48] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, Australia (2005)
  • Kate Warner (1978):[49] First female to serve as the Dean of the Faculty of Law and Head of the School of Law at the University of Tasmania. She is also the first female Governor of Tasmania (2014).
  • Tamara Jago (1993):[50] First female lawyer to become a Senior Counsel (SC) in Tasmania (2010)
  • Judy Jackson:[51] First female Attorney General of Tasmania (2002-2006)
Victoria
  • Joan Rosanove (1919):[52][53] First female barrister and solicitor in Victoria, Australia. She was also the first female Queen's Counsel (QC) in Victoria, Australia (1965).
  • Mary Catherine Rogers:[54] First female Justice of the Peace in Victoria, Australia (1920)
  • Elizabeth Nickolls:[55] Reputed to be the first female solicitor in the Western District of Victoria, Australia
  • Lynnette Schiftan (1967):[56] First female appointed as a Judge of the County Court of Victoria (1985)
  • Rosemary Balmford (c. 1960s):[57] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1996)
  • Linda Dessau (1974):[58] First female (a barrister and former Judge of the Family Court of Australia) to serve as the Governor of Victoria (2015). She is also the first Jewish female to serve in that role.
  • Susan Kenny (1981):[59] First female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal in Victoria (1997)
  • Pamela Tate (1987):[60] First female appointed as the Solicitor General in Victoria, Australia (2003-2010)
  • Linda Lovett (2006):[61][62] First Aboriginal female lawyer in Victoria, Australia
Western Australia
  • Auvergne Doherty (1922): First Western Australian female called to the English Bar following the enactment of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 [Western Australia]
  • Daisy Bates:[40] First female Justice of the Peace in South Australia and Western Australia (c. 1920)
  • Alice May Cummins (1930):[63] First female admitted to practice law in Western Australia
  • Margaret Battye (1933):[64] First female lawyer to represent a client and start a legal practice in Western Australia
  • Antoinette Kennedy:[65] First female judge in Western Australia (upon her appointment as a Judge of the District Court in 1985). She later became the first female Chief Judge of the District Court (2004).
  • Carmel McLure (c. 1970s):[66] First female appointed as the President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (2009)
  • Christine Wheeler (c. 1980): First female Queen's Counsel (QC) in Western Australia (1994)
  • Cheryl Edwardes:[67] First female Attorney General of Western Australia (1993-1995)

Self-governing territories

Australian Capital Territory
  • Victoria Anne Hartstein (1976):[68] First female barrister in the Australian Capital Territory
  • Rosemary Follett: First female (non-attorney) to serve as the Attorney General of the Australian Capital Territory (1989)
  • Mary Layton:[69] First female magistrate in the Australian Capital Territory (1991)
  • Harriet Louise Donohoe (1999):[70] First female barrister to become a Senior Counsel (SC) in the Australian Capital Territory (2008)
  • Susanne "Sue" Elizabeth Schreiner (High Court Roll; 1962):[71] First female barrister to appear before the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
  • Hilary Penfold:[72] First female appointed as the Resident Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (2008)
  • Helen Murrell:[73] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (2013)
Northern Territory

Cook Islands (NZL)

Federated States of Micronesia (USA)

Fiji

  • Patricia Hackett (c. 1930):[88] First female lawyer to take out a practicing lawyer's certificate in Fiji
  • Mere Pulea:[89][90] First Fijian female to earn a law degree. She was later appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Fiji.
  • Vusega Helu:[89] First female (of Tongan descent) magistrate in Fiji (c. 1980s)
  • Nazhat Shameem:[91][92] First female judge (who is of Indo-Fijian descent) in Fiji (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court of Fiji in 1999)

French Polynesia (FRA)

Guam (USA)

  • Janet Healy Weeks (c. 1970s):[94][95] First female lawyer appointed to the Guam Bar. She later became the first female judge in Guam.[85]
  • Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson (c. 1979):[96] First Chamorro female lawyer in Guam. She is the first female appointed as the Attorney General of Guam.
  • Marie Tydingco-Gatewood (1983):[97][98] First Chamorro female judge in Guam (1994). She is also known for becoming the first Chamorro female appointed as the Assistant Attorney General in the Prosecution Division on Guam (1984).
  • Jacqueline Nguyen (1991):[99] First Vietnamese American and Asian-Pacific female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2012)
  • Katherine Maraman:[100][101] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Guam (2017)

Kiribati

Marshall Islands (USA)

Nauru

New Caledonia (FRA)

  • Thérèse Pelletier (1977):[112] First female admitted to practice law in New Caledonia per the bar association's records
  • Nadine Pidjot (2017):[113] First Kanak female lawyer admitted to the Bar of Nouméa

New Zealand

Niue (NZL)

Norfolk Island (AUS)

Northern Mariana Islands (USA)

  • Jacqueline Nguyen (1991):[99] First Vietnamese American and Asian-Pacific female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2012) [Northern Mariana Islands]
  • Ramona Villagomez Manglona (1996):[148][149][150] First female lawyer in the Northern Mariana Islands. She later became the first female appointed as the Attorney General of the Northern Mariana Islands (2002-2003), as well as the first female Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern Marianas (2011).

Palau (USA)

  • Ernestine Rengiil (1987):[151][152] First Palauan female lawyer in Palau. She is also known as the first Palauan female to serve as the Attorney General of Palau (1992).
  • Jerrlyn Uduch Sengebau Senior:[152][153] First female judge in Palau (upon her appointment as an Associate Judge of the Land Court in 1999)
  • Kathleen M. Salii:[152] First female appointed as an Associate Justice of the Palau Supreme Court (2000)
  • Lourdes F. Materne:[152] First female appointed as a Senior Judge of the Palau Court of Common Pleas (2003)

Papua New Guinea

Pitcairn Islands (GBR)

Samoa

Solomon Islands

  • Ester Lelapitu:[175][176] First female appointed as a magistrate in the Solomon Islands (1999)
  • Jane Hamilton-White: First female appointed as the Principal Magistrate of the Solomon Islands (c. 2003-2005)
  • Emma Garo:[177][178][179][180] First female appointed as a Principal Magistrate in the Central Magistrates Court (2007) and the Chief Magistrate of the Solomon Islands (2017). Garo is also known as one of the first qualified female lawyers in the Solomon Islands.
  • Nkemdilim Izuako:[181] First female appointed as a Puisne Judge of the High Court of the Solomon Islands (2008)
  • Katalaini Ziru:[182] First female elected as the President of the Solomon Islands Bar Association (2014)

Tokelau (NZL)

Tonga

Tuvalu

Vanuatu

KEY

See also

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