- Samuel Way
Sir Samuel James Way (PC Bart) (11 April 1836 - 8 January 1916), English-Australian jurist, was a Chief Judge from 18 March 1876 until 8 January 1916 of the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia. Way was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1836. Reverend James Way, his father, was a clergyman in the Bible Christian Church, who emigrated to Adelaide, …
- Thomas Playford IV
Sir Thomas Playford GCMG (July 5 1896 – 16 June 1981) was a prominent South Australian politician and farmer. He served continuously as Premier of South Australia from 5 November 1938 to 10 March 1965, the longest term of any democratically elected leader in the history of the Commonwealth of Nations. His tenure as premier was marked by a period of population and economic growth unmatched by any other Australian state.
- Marilyn Warren
Marilyn Louise Warren <small>AC QC</small>; (1951 -) is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Victoria. She is the first woman to be appointed to that position and the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice in any of the states and territories of Australia. Warren grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Sandringham, and was educated at the Kilbreda Convent in Mentone.
- Wayne Martin
Wayne Stewart Martin <small>QC</small> (born 28 December 1952) was formally appointed on 4 April 2006 as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.
- Murray Kellam
Murray Kellam was formerly a judge of the County Court of Victoria in Australia before being appointed as a judge on 28 January 1998 to the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Victoria.
- John Doyle
The Honourable John Jeremy Doyle <small>AC QC</small>; (LLB, BCL) (born 1945), Australian jurist, is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia. Doyle was educated at Saint Ignatius College, South Australia and graduated in law from the University of Adelaide in 1966.
- Simon Whelan
Simon Whelan was appointed as a judge on 17 March 2004 to the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Victoria. He had formerly been a member of the Coodabeen Champions radio show since its inception on community radio station 3RRR.
- James Burrows Thomas
The Honourable Justice James Burrows Thomas <small>AM QC</small>; (born 12 March 1935) was a judge on the Supreme Court of Queensland (1998 - 2002), which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland.
- William à Beckett
Sir William à Beckett was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Victoria. à Beckett was born in London, England the eldest son of William à Beckett who was also a solicitor. He was the elder brother of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, (1811-1856) one of the original staff of "Punch magazine" and the author of 'Comic History of England'.
- Neville Owen
The Honourable Justice Neville John Owen was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia. He serves in the Court of Appeals Division. From 2001 through 2003, Owen headed HIH Insurance Royal Commission.
- Archibald Burt
Sir Archibald Paull Burt Kt QC (1810 - 21 November 1879) was a British lawyer from the colonies of the West Indies and was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia. Archibald Paull Burt was born in 1810, in St Christopher (present day St Kitts and Nevis) in the West Indies. He was the son of Hon. George Henry Burt, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of St.
- Philip Collier
Philip Collier was Premier of Western Australia for nine years, the longest ever term for an Australian Labor Party premier. Philip Collier was born at Woodstock near Melbourne, Victoria on 21 April 1873, and named Phillip Collier according to his birth certificate. The son of a farmer of the same name, he was educated locally but left school at the age of 16. He spent some time gold mining at Steiglitz, Victoria and then in New South Wales, …
- John Jefferson Bray
The Honourable Dr John Jefferson Bray <small>AC</small> (16 September 1912 - 26 June 1995) was an Australian poet, lawyer, academic, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia.
- Malcolm Champion
Malcolm Eadie Champion (12 November 1883 - July 27, 1939) was New Zealand's first Olympic gold medallist, and the first swimmer to represent New Zealand at an Olympic Games. He won a gold medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden as part of a combined team with Australia, competing as Australasia. Champion was born in 1883 on Norfolk Island (now an Australian territory but then a British colony), …
- Neal Macrossan
Neal William Macrossan (died 30 December 1955) was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland. He served as a puisne judge from 27 June 1940 until 30 June 1940. He served as a senior puisne judge 1 July 1940 until 22 April 1946. He served as Chief Justice from 23 April 1946 until 30 December 1955. Macrossan was a graduate of St. Joseph's Nudgee College, …
- Ian MacFarlan
Ian MacFarlan (21 November, 1881 - 19 March, 1964) was the Deputy Leader of the Australian Liberal Party in Victoria State during 1945. He was briefly commissioned as the Premier of Victoria by the Governor and he formed a government which effectuated the dissolution of the Dunstan Ministry.
- John Dwyer
Sir John Patrick Dwyer was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.
- John Winneke
The Honourable John Spence Winneke <small>AC AO QC RANR RFD</small> was a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the President of the Court of Appeals division of the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Victoria.
- Richard Hanson
Sir Richard Davies Hanson, was the fourth Premier of South Australia, from 30 September 1857 until 8 May 1860, and was a Chief Judge from 20 November 1861 until 4 March 1876 on the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia. Hanson was born in London, the second son of R. Hanson, a fruit merchant and importer, and was educated at a private school in Cambridgeshire.
- Paul de Jersey
Paul de Jersey <small>AC QC</small>; (born 21 September 1948) was appointed Chief Justice on 17 February 1998 of the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland.
- Francis Burt
Sir Francis Theodore Page Burt <small>AC KCMG QC</small>; (1918 - 2004) was Governor of Western Australia from 1990 to 1993. He gained his silks as a Queen's Counsel in 1959. He founded the independent Bar in Western Australia in 1961, and, with others, he established Bar Chambers in 1962. Burt was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.
- Flos Greig
Grata Flos Matilda Greig (7 November 1880 - 31 December 1958), Australian lawyer, was the first woman to be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in Australia. Greig was born in Broughty Ferry, Scotland in 1880, one of eight children of textile merchant and higher education advocate Robert Greig, and his wife Jane. She attended school in Dundee, Scotland, before the family moved to Melbourne, Victoria in 1889.
- Edward Williams
Sir Edward Williams <small>KBE KCMG</small> (1921 - 10 January 1999) was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland. Williams was appointed to the court on 13 May 1971 and served until he retired on 17 February 1984. During this time, he headed the 1977 to 1980 Royal Commission Inquiry into Drugs.
- George John Robert Murray
Sir George John Robert Murray <small>KCMG</small>; (27 September 1863 – 18 February 1942) was a judge from 2 April 1913 until 18 February 1942 on the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia. Of this time, he was Chief Judge from 20 January 1916 until 18 February 1942.
- Christopher Steytler
Christopher David Steytler QC is a justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia. In addition, he serves as the President of the Court of Appeals Division, having been appointed on the Division's creation on 28 January 2005.
- Frederick Illingworth
Frederick Illingworth, Australian politician, was a Member of Parliament in two Australian states, and a government minister in Western Australia. As a financier of land speculation in Victoria in the 1880s, he was heavily involved in the Victorian land boom.
- Stephen Henry Parker
Sir Stephen Henry Parker was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.
- Thomas Walker
Thomas Walker (5 February 1858 - 10 May 1932) was an Australian politician, a member of two different state parliaments. Walker was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, the son of corn miller and merchant Thomas Walker, and Ellen nee Eccles. He was educated at Leyland Grammar School, then worked as a schoolteacher at Preston for two years. He then emigrated to Canada, where he worked as a farmhand and chemist's assistant.
- Walter McNicoll
Sir Walter Ramsay McNicoll CB CMG DSO (1877–1947), Australian teacher, soldier, and colonial administrator. Grandson of a Scottish migrant (from Glenisla, near Dundee), he was born in Melbourne and trained as a teacher in the Education Department of the state of Victoria and at Melbourne University. He held posts in various country schools in Victoria, then as senior master at Melbourne High School and, from 1911 to 1914, founding principal of Geelong High School.
- Henry Wrenfordsley
Sir Henry Thomas Wrenfordsley (c. 1835 - 2 June 1908) Kt was an Irish lawyer and was the second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia. Educated in France, he entered Trinity College, Dublin in March 1841. A journeyman lawyer in Dublin and at the English Bar, Sir Henry later joined the colonial service. Called to the bar on 30 April 1863, …
- Len Roberts-Smith
Leonard William Roberts-Smith RFD QC (born 1945) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia. He serves in the Court of Appeals Division, and was first appointed on 6 November 2000. As of May 2007, he is also the serving Commissioner of the Corruption and Crime Commission of Western Australia, having been appointed for a five-year term.
- Catherine Holmes
The Honourable Justice Catherine Ena Holmes was appointed as a judge on 16 March 2000 to the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland.
- Henry Winneke
Sir Henry Winneke AC, KCMG, KCVO, OBE (20 October, 1908- 28 December, 1985) was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Victoria.
- George Higinbotham
George Higinbotham was a politician and was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Victoria.
- Lawrence Jackson
Sir Lawrence Walter Jackson was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.
- John McKechnie
John Roderick McKechnie QC (1 June 1950-) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia, and previously served as the State's first Director of Public Prosecutions. He attended Scotch College from 1963 until 1967, then graduated in law from the University of Western Australia in 1972. He then took articles with Jackson McDonald & Co, before joining the Crown Law Department.
- John Northmore
Sir John Alfred Northmore was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.
- Thomas O'Hagan
Thomas O'Hagan (died 18 July 1958) served as a judge from 16 October 1952 until 18 July 1958 on the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland.
- Henry Jickling
Henry Jinkling was appointed as a caretaker judge in 1837 to the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia.
- Pope Alexander Cooper
Sir Pope Alexander Cooper <small>KCMG</small>; (12 May 1848 – 30 August 1923) was a chief judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland. Pope Alexander Cooper was the son of Francis Cooper, a squatter, and was born at Willeroo station, Lake George, New South Wales. He was educated at the Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney, …