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Deirdre O'Connor

Honourable Justice

Occupation

Judge and Lawyer

Jurisdiction

Federal

In 1990 Justice Deirdre Frances O'Connor became the first woman to be appointed to the Federal Court. She was also the President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

Sources used to compile this entry: Deirdre O'Connor interviewed by Daniel Connell in the Law in Australian society oral history project [sound recording], 1996, ORAL TRC 3475; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection; http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/about/judges/former-judges; http://www.bethlehemcollege.nsw.edu.au/high_ach.php.

Prepared by Larissa Halonkin

Created: 17 August 2016, Last modified: 29 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.
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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/AWE5878b.htm