- Eva Joly
Eva Joly is a controversial Norwegian born French magistrate. Born in Grünerløkka, Oslo, she moved to Paris at 18 to work as au pair. Here, against the will of the parents, she married the son of the family, Pascal Joly (now deceased). Working as a secretary, she took her legal education at night school. Joly specialised in financial affairs, and in 1990 she joined the High Court of Paris as an investigating judge. - John Wood
John Wood (Born July 14, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a Gold Logie Award winning Australian actor, best known for his role as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon in the Seven Network's long running police drama "Blue Heelers". John Wood began his acting career in 1967, where he has a guest role in "Bellbird", an Australian television series. He then appearred in several Australian drama series' and mini-series' in minor roles. - John Fielding
Sir John Fielding (1721 - 4 September 1780) was a notable English magistrate and social reformer of the 18th century. John Fielding was the younger half-brother of novelist, playwright and chief magistrate Henry Fielding. Despite being blinded in a navy accident at the age of 19, John set up his own business and, in his spare time, studied law with Henry. - Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (1762-1840) was an early settler to Australia. In 1976 he was appointed master boatbuilder by Governor John Hunter. He was the recipient of numerous land grants, including Moorebank in the Liverpool district, which was named after him. He was appointed magistrate of the district in 1810. Moore was one of the founding directors of the Bank of New South Wales, now known as Westpac Banking Corporation. Moore died in 1840. - Sue Gordon
Dr. Sue Gordon (AM), is an indigenous Australian magistrate from Western Australia. Born at Belele Station, near Meekatharra, Western Australia in 1944, she was separated from her mother and family at the age of four and raised at Sister Kate's home in Queens Park, Western Australia. - Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone was an Italian magistrate who specialised in prosecuting Cosa Nostra crimes. He was killed by the Mafia, together with his wife and several of his bodyguards, by a 500-kg dynamite explosion placed beneath the motorway from Palermo Airport to Palermo. - Emily Murphy
Emily Murphy (March 14 1868 - October 17 1933) was a Canadian women's rights activist. In 1916, she became the first woman police magistrate in Alberta, and in the British Empire. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were "persons" under Canadian law. - Baltasar Garzón
Baltasar Garzón Real is a prominent judge (investigating magistrate) of Spain. Garzón currently sits on Spain's second highest criminal court (Sala 5 of the "Audiencia Nacional"), the Audiencia Nacional. Garzón is known in Spain as "Super Judge" or "Judge-Star." - Verres
Gaius Verres (ca. 120-43 BC), was a Roman magistrate, notorious for his misgovernment of Sicily. It is not known to what "gens" he belonged. At first, he supported Gaius Marius and the populares, but soon went over to the optimates. Lucius Cornelius Sulla made him a present of land at Beneventum, and secured him against punishment for embezzlement. In 80, Verres was "quaestor" in Asia on the staff of Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, governor of Cilicia. - Paolo Borsellino
Paolo Borsellino (January 19, 1940 - July 19, 1992) was an Italian anti-Mafia magistrate. - John Richards
John Richards (April 18, 1753 - November 13, 1822) was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania. Born in New Hanover, he was educated under private tutors and served as magistrate during the Revolutionary War. He was appointed justice of the peace for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania on June 6, 1777 and served until his death. He was judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Montgomery County in 1784, … - Bernard Borrel
Bernard Borrel was a French magistrate in Djibouti. He died under mysterious circumstances on 19 October 1995. At the time of his death, Borrel had been making investigations into money-laundering. His burned body was found at the bottom of a ravine, 80 kilometers from Djibouti. Initial investigations by the Djiboutian authorities stated the cause of death to be depression leading to self-immolation. - John Howe
John Howe (October 14, 1754 - December 27, 1835) was a loyalist printer during the American Revolution, a printer and Postmaster in Halifax, the father of the famous Joseph Howe, a spy prior to the War of 1812, and eventually a Magistrate of the Colony of Nova Scotia. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay colony, the son of Joseph Howe, a tin plate worker of Puritan ancestry, and Rebeccah Hart. - David Heilpern
David Heilpern, is an Australian lawyer and author. David Heilpern is a Magistrate of New South Wales formerly a solicitor and barrister with the Australian Government Solicitor and in private practice specialises in criminal law. He is the son of former Byron Shire Councillor, Sandra Heilpern. He is the recipient of the Southern Cross University’s Alumnus of the Decade Award. One of Magistrate Heilpern's recent sittings was in April 13, … - Jay Warren
Jay Calvin Warren (born July 29, 1956) is a Pitcairn politician, who was elected Mayor of the last remaining British dependency in Oceania in the general election held on 15 December 2004, defeating Brenda Christian, who had held the Mayoralty in an interim capacity following the dismissal from the post of her brother, Steve Christian, by the British authorities on 30 October 2004, following his rape convictions. - Trebonius
Gaius Trebonius (died 43 BC) was a military commander and politician of the late Roman Republic, a trusted associate of Julius Caesar who later participated in his assassination. His father was an "eques", but had not been a magistrate, and the son was considered a "novus homo", one of several in Caesar's circle. He served as quaestor around 60 BC, and was tribune of the plebs in 55, … - Susan Richard Nelson
Susan Richard Nelson (born 1952) is an American lawyer and judge. Susan was appointed as United States Magistrate for the District of Minnesota, and took the oath of office on June 12 2000. Nelson graduated Oberlin College, Ohio and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In 1984 she joined the Minneapolis-based law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP. She married attorney Tom Nelson. She has two sons, Robert and Michael. - Patrick Colquhoun
Patrick Colquhoun (14 March 1745-25 April 1820) was a merchant, statistician, magistrate, and founder of the first regular preventive police force in England, the Thames River Police. - John Frost
John Frost was a prominent leader of the British Chartist movement. John Frost's father died early in his childhood and he was brought up by his grandparents. He was apprenticed as a bootmaker to his grandfather and left home at the age of sixteen to become a tailor, first in Cardiff, then Bristol and London. He returned to Newport in 1806 to start his own business, which became prosperous. He married and, over the course of eleven years, had eight children. - Hugh Griffith
Hugh Emrys Griffith (May 30, 1912 - May 14, 1980) was a Welsh film, stage and television actor. He was born in Marian Glas, Anglesey, Wales. Griffith was educated in local schools and attempted to gain entrance to university, but failed the English examination. He was then urged to make a career in banking. He became a bank clerk and transferred to London to be closer to acting opportunities. - Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli or Ulricus Zuinglius (January 1, 1484 - October 11, 1531) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches. Independent of Martin Luther, who was "doctor biblicus", Zwingli arrived at similar conclusions, by studying the Scriptures from the point of view of a humanist scholar. Zwingli was born in Wildhaus, St. Gallen, Switzerland, … - Edmund Berry Godfrey
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was an English magistrate whose mysterious death caused anti-Catholic uproar in England. Contemporary documents also spell the name Edmundbury Godfrey. - Patty Shwartz
Patty Shwartz is a federal magistrate judge for the district of New Jersey in the United States sitting in Newark, NJ. Shwartz attended Pompton Lakes High School, Rutgers University and University of Pennsylvania law school and has served as Assistant United States Attorney, Chief of the Criminal Division for the United States Attorney's office of the district of New Jersey and Executive Assistant United States Attorney for the district of New Jersey. - Luca Pitti
Luca Pitti (1398 - 1472) was a Florentine banker during the period of the republic presided over by Cosimo de' Medici. He was loyal friend and servant to the Medici and the republic. He was awarded a knighthood, and received lavish presents from both the Signory of Firenze and the Medici family as a reward for helping maintain the government during the last years of Cosimo's rule when Cosimo was too old and feeble to maintain power alone. - Stanley R. Chesler
Stanley R. Chesler (born 1947, Brooklyn) is a United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey. Judge Chesler was nominated to his seat by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2002, to a seat vacated by Judge Anne E. Thompson and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 14, 2002. Judge Chesler received his commission on December 4, 2002 and was sworn in thereafter. Judge Chesler graduated from Harpur College in 1968 and St. - Rod Morgan
Professor Rod Morgan was the chair of the Youth Justice Board in England and Wales from April 2004 until his resignation in January 2007. He succeeded Sir Charles Pollard. He was formerly HM Chief Inspector of Probation for England and Wales, a post he took up in August 2001. Before that he was Professor of Criminal Justice in the faculty of law at the University of Bristol, where he remains Professor Emeritus. - Alexander Wood
Alexander Wood (January 1772 - September 11, 1844) was a merchant and magistrate in Upper Canada, who was the center of a homophobic sex scandal in 1810. Wood, who was born in Fetteresso, Scotland, moved to Upper Canada in 1793, settling in the town of York (now Toronto) four years later. Going into business with William Allan, he established himself as one of the city's leading merchants, gazetted lieutenant in the York militia in 1798, … - Dorit Beinisch
Dorit Beinisch (born: 1942) is the president of the Supreme Court of Israel. With the retirement of outgoing president Aharon Barak, she was appointed to the position on September 7, 2006. She is the first woman to serve as president of the Supreme Court. <sup></sup> She appears likely to continue Barak's judicial-activist approach. A member of Israel's Supreme Court since 1995, Beinisch has an extensive career in public service. - Thomas Bennett
Thomas Bennett, was born in England and worked for the British government before coming to St. John’s, Newfoundland in the 1820s. He joined his brother, Charles Fox Bennett, as a partner in Charles' mercantile business. Both brothers became important members of the business community. In 1832, Thomas was elected to Newfoundland's first House of Assembly and also held a number of appointed positions in the government once he chose not to run for further office. - John Woodcock
Henry John Woodcock (born 1967 in Taunton, England), is a prosecutor in Potenza, Italy Henry John Woodcock is the son of a teacher of the Naval Academy of Livorno, his mother is from Naples. He became a prosecutor in 1996 and has become famous for his investigations in high profile scandals including the Italian "Vip-Gate" in 2003, and the Italian "Somali-Gate" in 2006. - Excellent Cadavers
"Excellent Cadavers" is a 1995 non-fiction book by Alexander Stille about the Sicilian Mafia, concentrating on magistrate Giovanni Falcone's fight against the Mafia and his 1992 assassination. The name of the book comes from the phrase "excellent cadavers" ("cadaveri eccellenti"), used by the Italian police when referring to high-profile victims of the Mafia such as politicians, … - Thomas Lucy
Sir Thomas Lucy (April 24, 1532-July 7, 1600) was a magistrate and an evangelical in Charlecote near Stratford-on-Avon who, under Elizabeth I, [http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/players/player43.html persecuted recusant Catholic families in the area], including William Shakespeare's maternal relatives, the Ardens and the famous Jesuit, Edmund Campion. - John Bush
John Bush, OBE, JP, is the current Lord Lieutenant of the English county of Wiltshire, serving since 2004. He had previously served as the county's High Sheriff. His duties include: *Overseeing arrangements for visits to Wiltshire by members of the Royal Family and escorting Royal visitors *Presentating awards and medals on behalf of H.M. the Queen *Representing H.M. the Queen at events *Liaising with the Wiltshire units of the Royal Navy, … - Felice Casson
Felice Casson (born August 5, 1953, in Chioggia, province of Venice) is an Italian magistrate and politician, who discovered the existence of Operation Gladio, a "stay-behind" NATO anti-communist army during the Cold War, which, in Italy, took part in the strategy of tension. Passionate about jurisprudence, he graduated in Padova University, and entered the magistracy in 1980 as a prosecuting attorney. His most famous job concerns Gladio. - Princess Caraboo
Princess Caraboo (1791 - January 4, 1865), a noted impostor, pretended to be from a faraway island and fooled a British town for some time. On April 3, 1817, a cobbler in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England, met an apparently disoriented young woman with exotic clothes who was speaking a language no one could understand. The cobbler's wife took her to the Overseer of the Poor who left her in the hands of the local county magistrate, Samuel Worrall, … - Yves Bot
Yves Bot is a French magistrate. In 1995, Yves Bot was nominated by Jacques Toubon as prosecutor of Nanterre, then minister of justice. He directed the corthouse of Le Mans and worked as a counsellor to Pierre Méhaignerie at the ministry of Justice. Between October 2002 and October 2004, he was "procureur" (head of the prosecution) of the Paris court of large claims ("Tribunal de grande instance"). - Martha Karua
Martha Wangari Karua (1957-) is a Kenyan politician, and is a Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs. She is an MP of Gichungu constituency in the Kenyan parliament. Martha Wangari Karua, of the Kikuyu tribe, was born in Kirinyaga District, Central Province of Kenya on 22nd September 1957. Martha Karua studied law at University of Nairobi from 1977 to 1980 then went for further study at law school from 1980 to 1981 and qualified as lawyer. - Nina Gershon
Nina Gershon (born 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is a federal district judge in the Eastern District of New York. She was appointed by President Clinton in 1996 at the recommendation of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Gershon is known for her intelligence, legal ability, and "quiet and businesslike" approach to judging. Prior to her appointment as a district judge, Judge Gershon served for twenty years as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York. - Foster Fyans
Foster Fyans (1790 - 1870), soldier, penal administrator and public servant, was acting commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, the first police magistrate at Geelong, and commissioner of crown lands for the Portland Bay pastoral district in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales. Fyans was baptised at Clontarf, Dublin and joined the British Army in 1810, seeing service in the Peninsula War. From 1817 he served in India. - Michael Oliver
Sir James Michael Yorrick Oliver was Lord Mayor of London from 2001 to 2002. Sir Michael has extensive experience of City business having enjoyed a long career in stockbroking and asset management. Educated at Wellington College, he started his working life in Stockbrokers Kitcat & Aitken and became a member of the London Stock Exchange. He subsequently became both a partner of the firm and later Managing Director.
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