Barbara Cotterell

Her Honour Judge

Occupation

Judge, Lawyer and Magistrate

Jurisdiction

VIC - State

Barbara Cotterell was a Magistrate in the Victorian Magistrates Court for eighteen years before her appointment as an Acting Judge of the County Court in 2008.

Sources used to compile this entry: 'And what do we have here?!' The first (25) women to sign the Victorian Bar Roll - some personal reminiscences [Slideshow]; http://law.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/community/alumni-profiles-and-accomplishments/appointments.

Prepared by Larissa Halonkin

Created: 17 August 2016, Last modified: 18 August 2016

This exhibition is an outcome from 'The Trailblazing Women and the Law' project, a collaboration between the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.

This research was generously supported by the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects funding scheme (project number LP120200367), and project partners: Australian Women Lawyers, Family Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, National Foundation for Australian Women and the National Library of Australia.

Data in this exhibition is up-to-date to 30 June 2016.
Further information about data collection and currency.

Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager, a tool developed by the eScholarship Research Centre, part of the University Library at the University of Melbourne.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Published by the Australian Women's Archives Project 2016
ISBN 978-0-7340-5406-7
http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers/biogs/AWE5785b.htm