List of magistrates of the Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory
Listed below are Magistrates of the Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory, as of June 2019[update], including Chief Magistrates, Magistrates and Special Magistrates.[1][2]
Prior to 1949, the person holding the office of Police Magistrate at either Queanbeyan or Goulburn exercised the power of Magistrate in the Australian Capital Territory.[1]
Position | Name | Term begin | Term end | Term | Notes |
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Chief Magistrate | Charles Kilduff [a] | 28 November 1974 | 14 March 1980 | 5 years, 107 days | |
Clarence Hermes [a] | 4 December 1980 | 29 February 1984 | 3 years, 87 days | ||
Ronald Cahill [a] | 28 March 1985 | 17 November 2009 | 24 years, 234 days | ||
John Burns [a] | 15 December 2009 | 29 July 2011 | 1 year, 226 days | ||
Lorraine Walker [a] | 13 October 2011 | 12 years, 360 days | |||
Acting Chief Magistrate | Kevin Townley Dobson | 29 February 1984 | March 27, 1985 | 1 year, 27 days | |
Magistrate [b] | Francis Keane | 30 November 1949 | 28 October 1966 | 16 years, 332 days | [3] |
John Desmond Button | 14 May 1959 | 30 June 1962 | 3 years, 47 days | ||
Clarence Hermes [c] | 6 December 1963 | 23 April 1970 | 6 years, 138 days | ||
Kevin Townley Dobson [c] | 13 December 1963 | 28 February 1984 | 20 years, 77 days | ||
28 March 1985 | 28 April 1986 | 1 year, 31 days | |||
Eric Sterndale Pearson | 19 October 1967 | 19 February 1976 | 8 years, 123 days | ||
Warren Keith Nicholl | 28 May 1971 | 6 November 1977 | 6 years, 162 days | ||
John Joseph Dainer | 10 May 1973 | 23 July 1993 | 20 years, 74 days | ||
Charles Kilduff [c] | 10 April 1974 | 27 November 1974 | 231 days | ||
Ronald Cahill [c] | 22 September 1977 | 27 March 1985 | 7 years, 186 days | ||
Michael Anthony Somes | 13 January 1986 | 31 July 2007 | 21 years, 199 days | ||
Michael Ward | 21 April 1986 | 30 June 1998 | 12 years, 70 days | ||
Peter Geoffrey Dingwall | 26 April 1990 | 17 August 2016 | 26 years, 113 days | ||
John Burns [c] | 26 April 1990 | December 14, 2009 | 19 years, 232 days | ||
Karen Fryar | 6 September 1993 | 8 March 2019 | 25 years, 183 days | ||
Shane Madden | 19 December 1996 | 10 July 2009 | 12 years, 203 days | ||
Beth Campbell | 5 August 1998 | 3 March 2023 | 26 years, 63 days | ||
Maria Doogan | 5 August 1998 | 30 March 2012 | 13 years, 238 days | ||
Grant Lalor | 1 February 2004 | 29 May 2012 | 8 years, 118 days | ||
Lorraine Walker [c] | 19 July 2010 | 12 October 2011 | 1 year, 85 days | ||
David Mossop | 23 December 2011 | 21 May 2013 | 1 year, 149 days | ||
Peter Morrison | 14 February 2012 | 12 years, 236 days | |||
Bernadette Boss | 11 June 2012 | 12 years, 118 days | |||
Robert Matthew Cook | 11 September 2013 | 11 years, 26 days | |||
Glenn Theakston | 30 May 2016 | 8 years, 130 days | |||
Louise Taylor | 10 August 2018 | 6 years, 58 days | |||
James Lawton | 6 May 2019 | 5 years, 154 days | |||
James Stewart | 6 May 2019 | 5 years, 154 days | |||
Special Magistrate | John Goodwin | 25 November 1930 | 6 September 1936 | 5 years, 286 days | |
Sir Robert Garran | 27 March 1942 | ||||
Arthur Percival | 28 November 1946 | ||||
Robert McKillop | 14 May 1947 | ||||
Francis Keane [d] | 18 May 1947 | 29 November 1949 | 2 years, 195 days | [3] | |
28 October 1966 | |||||
Sidney Rhodes | 9 July 1947 | 6 October 1953 | 6 years, 89 days | ||
Frank Clifton Green | 9 July 1947 | ||||
Frank Gordon Thorpe | 9 July 1947 | 23 December 1953 | 6 years, 167 days | ||
Charles Francis Denton | 21 March 1957 | ||||
John Llanover Davies | 16 April 1957 | ||||
Geoffrey Sawer | 16 April 1957 | ||||
Edmond Monaghan Debenham | 9 August 1962 | ||||
Everard Roy Harvey | 20 September 1962 | ||||
Keith Stacey Edmonds | 5 April 1963 | ||||
Martin Sylvester Meagher | 23 April 1963 | ||||
Alexander John Paton | 24 August 1967 | ||||
Brian Frederick Lake Crommelin | 23 November 1967 | ||||
Rexton James Humby | 17 April 1968 | ||||
William Stilwell Flynn | 30 April 1968 | ||||
John Roderick Scarlett | 27 March 1969 | ||||
Charles Kingsley Ward | 27 March 1969 | ||||
Clement Lewis Fischer | 29 June 1970 | ||||
Thomas Francis Price | 26 August 1976 | ||||
Eric Sterndale Pearson [d] | 26 August 1976 | ||||
Alan Eugene Hogan | 22 September 1977 | 5 June 1989 | 11 years, 256 days | ||
Desmond O'Connor | 16 February 1978 | ||||
David Bruce Nichols | 19 October 1978 | ||||
Charles Kilduff [d] | 27 March 1980 | 4 November 1981 | 1 year, 222 days | ||
Anthony William Wynne | 9 July 1982 | ||||
James Joseph O'Neill | 27 January 1983 | ||||
Kevin Townley Dobson [d] | 20 August 1986 | ||||
John Martin Murphy | 19 May 1988 | ||||
Marcus Kessell Bannister | 14 October 1988 | ||||
Alan Anthony Hardiman | 24 November 1988 | ||||
Douglas William Smith | 14 December 1989 | 1 July 1994 | 4 years, 199 days | ||
John Joseph Dainer [d] | 3 March 1994 | ||||
Christine Susan Harvey | 30 September 1994 | ||||
Elizabeth Marjorie Symons | 30 September 1994 | 30 September 2004 | 10 years, 0 days | ||
Garry George Dellar | 30 September 1994 | ||||
Warren Keith Nicholl [d] | 20 February 1996 | ||||
Michael Ward | 20 July 1998 | 30 August 1998 | 41 days | ||
22 September 1998 | 30 October 1998 | 38 days | |||
Michael Henry Peedom | 11 November 1998 | 10 November 2005 | 6 years, 364 days | ||
Phillip Raymond Thompson | 12 September 2000 | 28 February 2006 | 5 years, 169 days | ||
Ian Henry Pike | 29 September 2001 | 28 August 2002 | 364 days | ||
Grant Lalor [d] | 25 June 2002 | 13 December 2002 | 171 days | ||
Kenneth Cush | 13 October 2008 | 30 June 2010 | 1 year, 260 days | ||
3 June 2013 | 15 December 2018 | 5 years, 195 days | |||
Bill Stefaniak | 17 November 2008 | 2 February 2009 | 77 days | ||
Graeme Lunney | 16 May 2011 | 15 May 2014 | 2 years, 364 days | ||
Christopher Chenoweth | 16 May 2011 | 15 May 2014 | 2 years, 364 days | ||
Maria Doogan [d] | 3 June 2013 | 6 May 2017 | 3 years, 337 days | ||
Margaret Hunter | 21 May 2014 | 10 years, 139 days | |||
Dominic Mulligan | 21 May 2014 | 6 May 2017 | 2 years, 350 days |
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Former and Current Magistrates". Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory. ACT Government. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ "Special Magistrates". Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ a b Tilse, Sheila. "Keane, Francis Charles Patrick (1901–1971)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.