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[update].[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, 252 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, 251 days | [10] | |||
Judge of the Appeals Division | Steven Strickland | 22 November 1999 | 24 years, 269 days | |||
Garry Watts | 14 April 2005 | 19 years, 125 days | ||||
Judith Ryan | 31 July 2006 | 18 years, 17 days | ||||
Peter Murphy | 11 October 2007 | 1 May 2019 | 11 years, 202 days | |||
Stewart Austin | 13 July 2009 | 15 years, 35 days | ||||
Ann Ainslie-Wallace | 9 July 2010 | 14 years, 39 days | ||||
Michael Kent | 12 July 2011 | 13 years, 36 days | ||||
Murray Aldridge | 13 December 2012 | 11 years, 248 days | ||||
Peter Tree | 14 January 2013 | 11 years, 216 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, 91 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 | 18 years, 364 days | ||||
Victoria Bennett | 30 November 2005 | 18 years, 261 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 | 14 years, 352 days | Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia | |||
Margaret Cleary | 8 July 2010 | 14 years, 40 days | ||||
William Johnston | 12 July 2010 | 4 September 2019 | 14 years, 36 days | [14] | ||
Ian Loughnan | 12 July 2010 | 14 years, 36 days | ||||
Colin Forrest | 2 February 2011 | 13 years, 197 days | ||||
Kirsty Macmillan | 14 December 2011 | 12 years, 247 days | ||||
Anne Rees | 15 December 2011 | 12 years, 246 days | ||||
Susan Duncanson | 6 December 2012 | 11 years, 255 days | Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia | |||
John Walters | 6 December 2012 | 11 years, 255 days | Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia | |||
Jenny Hogan | 14 January 2013 | 11 years, 216 days | ||||
Jennifer Coate | 31 January 2013 | 8 February 2019 | 6 years, 25 days | [5] | ||
David Berman | 18 July 2013 | 11 years, 30 days | ||||
Sharon Johns | 29 July 2013 | 11 years, 19 days | ||||
Garry Foster | 8 August 2013 | 11 years, 9 days | ||||
Christine Thornton | 12 August 2013 | 14 December 2018 | 5 years, 124 days | [5] | ||
Hilary Hannam | 12 August 2013 | 11 years, 4 days | ||||
Catherine Carew | 7 March 2016 | 8 years, 163 days | ||||
Richard O'Brien | 12 April 2016 | 8 years, 127 days | Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia | |||
Shane Gill | 16 May 2016 | 8 years, 93 days | ||||
Michael Baumann | 11 January 2018 | 6 years, 219 days | ||||
Gail Sutherland | 16 March 2018 | 6 years, 154 days | Chief Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia | |||
Louise Henderson | 8 February 2019 | 5 years, 191 days | ||||
Jillian Williams | 8 February 2019 | 5 years, 191 days | ||||
Ciara Tyson | 22 February 2019 | 5 years, 177 days | Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia | |||
Joshua Wilson | 11 March 2019 | 5 years, 159 days | ||||
Robert Harper | 11 March 2019 | 5 years, 159 days | ||||
Christine Mead | 25 March 2019 | 5 years, 145 days | ||||
Norah Hartnett | 25 March 2019 | 5 years, 145 days | ||||
Timothy McEvoy | 27 March 2019 | 5 years, 143 days |