Virginia Judge - Early Life

Early Life

Judge was born in Cooma where her father worked as a surveyor on the Snowy Mountain Scheme and was educated in Canberra. She received a Bachelor of Education from the Canberra School of Music.

Judge taught in primary and secondary schools in Sydney and Canberra, including at the Evandale Special School in Croydon, a school catering for intellectual disabled students. She also worked as a volunteer abroad for the Overseas Service Bureau in Tonga and as a project officer for small non-government organisation, The Australian Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific, delivering items such as humidicribs, toilets and ovens to Pacific islands such as Nauru, the Solomon Islands and Fiji.

Judge returned to Sydney,and worked in real estate, qualifying for her real estate licence. She was also studying Law part-time at Macquarie University prior to her election to the Legislative Assembly.

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