Anthony Murray Gleeson, is an Australian former judge who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1998 to 2008.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee is the Federal district court covering the western part of the state of Tennessee. Appeals from the Western District of Tennessee are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Sir Francis Theodore Page Burt was an Australian jurist who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Western Australia, from 1977 to 1988, and the 29th Governor of Western Australia, from 1990 to 1993. Burt was born in Cottesloe, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Guildford Grammar School. He studied law at the University of Western Australia, and also served in the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. Burt was made a justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1969, and was promoted to Chief Justice in 1977. As Chief Justice, he served as lieutenant-governor. When the Governor of Western Australia, Gordon Reid, resigned in 1989, Burt was appointed to succeed him and served as Governor until 1993.
The Supreme Court of Queensland is the highest court in the Australian State of Queensland.
The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory is the superior court for the Australian Territory of the Northern Territory. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the territory in civil matters, and hears the most serious criminal matters. It is around the middle of the Australian court hierarchy.
The Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea has been the highest court of Papua New Guinea since 16 September 1975, replacing the pre-Independence Supreme Court and the overseas appellate tribunals from 1902 to 1975 of the High Court of Australia and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Judges of the pre-Independence Supreme Court automatically became the justices of the National Court and accordingly among the pool of judges available to be empanelled as a Supreme Court bench. "The National and Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea is composed of the Chief Justice, Deputy Chief Justice and 21 Judges."
Sir Henry Thomas Wrenfordsley was an Irish lawyer and was the second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.
Lawrence R. Yetka was an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Sir Philip Whistler Street was the eighth and second longest-serving Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales. He was the first of three generations of the Street family to serve New South Wales in both of these roles; followed by his son Sir Kenneth Whistler Street and grandson Sir Laurence Whistler Street.
Sir John Alfred Northmore KCMG was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia. Northmore was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court in 1914 before being appointed Chief Justice in 1935. He retired in 1945 and died in 1958.
Robert Shenton French is a retired Australian lawyer and judge who served as the twelfth Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 2008 to 2017. He has been the chancellor of the University of Western Australia since 2017.
Bryan Alan Beaumont AO was a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia from May 1983 until February 2005. He also held positions in the legal systems of Pacific countries including Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji and Vanuatu.
James Joshua Edelman has been a justice of the High Court of Australia since 30 January 2017, and is a former justice of the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He is noted for his various achievements at a young age, including becoming a professor at Oxford University before the age of 35 and a justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia before the age of 40. He was 43 years old upon commencing his appointment on the High Court and is eligible to continue until reaching the constitutionally required retirement age of 70 in 2044.
Lawrence Stanley Jackson was the Australian Taxation Commissioner from 1939 to 1946.
Thomas Percy Draper CBE KC was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1907 to 1911 and again from 1917 to 1921, and was attorney-general in the first government of Sir James Mitchell. He later served on the Supreme Court of Western Australia from 1921 to 1939.
