Charles Darwin University (CDU) is an Australian public university with a main campus in Darwin and eight satellite campuses in some metropolitan and regional areas. It was established in 2003 after the merger of Northern Territory University,the Menzies School of Health Research,and Centralian College.
Keith John Austin Asche is a former Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia and was the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.
Sally Ann Walker is an Australian university administrator and lawyer. She served as the fifth Vice-Chancellor and President of Deakin University (2003–2010) and was the first woman to be appointed to the position.
Dean Mildren,is a former judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. He was appointed to the court on 27 June 1991,and retired February 2013. He is sworn in as an acting judge of the court,so from time to time still adjudicates on cases in the Northern Territory.
Ian L. Gray AM is a retired Victorian lawyer,and former judge,chief magistrate and State Coroner at the Coroners Court of Victoria.
Thomas Ian Pauling was an Australian lawyer and an administrator of the Northern Territory.
Linda Marion Dessau is an Australian jurist and barrister who served as the 29th Governor of Victoria from 2015 to 2023. She is the first female and the first Jewish holder of the office. She was previously a judge of the Family Court of Australia from 1995 to 2013.
Jenny May Blokland is a judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory,Australia.
Danelle Bergstrom is an Australian visual artist known for landscapes and portraits of significant Australians and International figures.
Dame Sandra Prunella Mason is a Barbadian politician,lawyer,and diplomat who is serving as the first president of Barbados since 2021. She was previously the eighth and final governor-general of Barbados from 2018 to 2021,the second woman to hold the office. On 20 October 2021,Mason was elected by the Parliament of Barbados to become the country's first president,and took office on 30 November 2021,when Barbados ceased to be a constitutional monarchy and became a republic.
Clarence Lindsay Hermes was an Australian barrister and magistrate.
Sally Wheeler,is Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck,University of London and was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Australian National University,where she was also served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the College of Law (2018-2022). She is also a Visiting Full Professor at the UCD Sutherland School of law and adjunct professor at Waikato University,New Zealand,and Jilin University,China. Wheeler was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy in 2011 and 2013,respectively. She was previously a Professor at Queen's University Belfast and was the Head of the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast for several years,she also served as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS),Dean of Internationalisation (AHSS) and,in 2017,Interim Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research Enterprise. Wheeler is the author or co-author of several books on corporate governance,over 70 articles or book chapters,and she has edited or co-edited nine other books. Wheeler has given major addresses and led workshops around the world,and has also been cited as "one of the world's leading experts" on the governance of pensions. In August 2023 her appointment as the incoming Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck,University of London,was announced.
Sally May Gearin is an Australian lawyer. She was the first female member of the Bar in the Northern Territory.
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik is a Djaru Elder and Australian academic,specialising in Indigenous studies and culture. She was the first Indigenous Australian to gain a doctorate from Harvard University.
Judith Ann Whitworth is an Australian medical researcher in the areas of kidney function and blood pressure. Now an emeritus professor,she is the former director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Howard Florey Professor of Medical Research at the Australian National University (ANU).
Louise Taylor is a judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory,appointed on 26 July 2023 and due to be sworn in during August 2023. Before this appointment,she has been a Magistrate of the ACT since September 2018. She is the first Aboriginal person to be appointed as a judicial officer in the Australian Capital Territory,and the first Indigenous woman to become a Supreme Court judge in Australia.
Nancy (Nan) Giese was an Australian leader in education and the visual and performing arts,who pioneered tertiary education in the Northern Territory,leading the Darwin Community College which eventually became Charles Darwin University.
