Educated SCEGGS Darlinghust, Leaving Certificate 1955
1960 Bachelor of Science (BSc), agriculture, University of Sydney
1960 - 1962 Research Assistant, then Demonstrator in the Dairy Research Unit, University of Sydney Farms, Camden
1963 Qualified as a technical teacher, New South Wales Department of Technical Education
1963 - 1964 Full-time teacher of Agriculture, School of Rural Studies, New South Wales Department of Teaching and Education
1965 - 1966 Professional Officer, University of Sydney Farms, Camden
1966 Senior Tutor of Dairying, University of Sydney Farms, Camden
1968 - 1969 Acting Officer in Charge of the Dairy Research Unit, University of Sydney Farms, Camden
1970 Master of Science (MSc), Agriculture, University of Sydney
1975 - 1978 Lecturer in Animal Husbandry, University of Sydney Farms, Camden
1975 - 1982 Warden of Nepean Hall, University of Sydney Farms, Camden
1978 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Sydney
1978 - 1982 Assistant Director, University of Sydney Farms, Camden
1982 - 1991 Director, University of Sydney Farms, Camden
1991 - 2003 Member of the Legislative Assembly for Camden, New South Wales

Sources used to compile this entry: Smith, A. Viola, Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present, Australian Local Government Women's Association; Australian National Advisory Committee on International Women's Year, Australian Local Government Women's Association, Canberra, 1975, 148 pp; http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004280b.htm (accessed 23 October 2004); http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf (accessed 23 October 2004).