Tagged: Justice Ruth McColl

8th May 2014

Celebrating members of the ‘FW2’ club.

On 27 February 2014, the Honourable Justice Ruth McColl (AO) gave an address to members of the Women Lawyers Association of New South Wales. In front of an audience that included alumni of the ‘FW2’ club (those ‘first woman to’ occupy a senior position in the judiciary), McColl celebrated the achievements of Australian women appointed […]

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30th November 2016

Kiefel appointment is refreshing, but greater diversity is an ongoing task

Members of the Trailblazing Women and the Law project team are delighted by the appointment of Susan Kiefel as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. But as Kim Rubenstein reminds us, her cleaving of this judicial glass ceiling she not be regarded as an endpoint in the quest for greater diversity on the bench, […]

29th November 2016

Susan Kiefel becomes Australia’s first female High Court chief justice

Susan Kiefel has been named as the next Chief Justice of the High Court, the first woman to take on the role. She replace Chief Justice Robert French who will stand down in January, ahead of his 70th birthday and in order to allow his successor to be in place for the start of the new year sittings on January […]

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Tagged: Justice Ruth McColl

Celebrating members of the ‘FW2’ club.