Monash University Faculty of Law - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Monash Law School, though relatively young, has produced some notable graduates who are currently leaders in politics & government, the law, business, social services & philanthropy and the media. Presently, almost all of the senior judicial positions in Victoria - including Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Chief Judge of the County Court, Chief Magistrate, President of VCAT, Chief Magistrate of the Children's Court, Solicitor-General, Director of Public Prosecutions and State Coroner - are occupied by Monash Law School graduates.

Politics & Government

• Richard Alston - Former Australian Senator and Minister, and Australian High Commissioner in London
• Kevin Andrews - Former Australian Minister for Immigration and Workplace Relations
• Peter Costello - Longest-serving Treasurer of Australia, former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
• Simon Crean - Australian Minister for Trade, former Leader of the Opposition and Australian Labor Party Leader
• Michael Kroger - Prominent Businessman and former President of the Victorian Liberal Party
• John Lenders - Former Victorian Treasurer and longest-serving Finance Minister of Victoria
• Tony Lupton - Former Secretary of the Victorian Cabinet
• Brendan O'Connor - Current Australian Minister for Home Affairs
• Clare O'Neil - Youngest female Mayor of a Local Government Area in Australia's history, and now Fulbright Scholar
• Martin Pakula - Former Victorian Minister for Public Transport, now Shadow Attorney-General
• Peter Reith - Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, former Defence Minister and Minister for Workplace Relations
• Bill Shorten - Assistant Treasurer of Australia, former National Secretary, Australian Workers' Union and Victorian State ALP President
• John Thwaites - Former Deputy Premier of the State of Victoria and Minister for Environment and Water
• Dean Wells - Attorney-General of Queensland in the Goss Government

Judiciary and the Bar

• Kevin Bell - Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Current President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
• Diana Bryant - Current Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia; former and first Chief Magistrate of the Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia
• Julian Burnside QC - High profile barrister, human rights advocate, author
• Jennifer Coate - Current State Coroner of Victoria; first President of the Children's Court of Victoria
• Raymond Finkelstein - High profile Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
• Paul Grant - Current President of the Children's Court of Victoria
• Ian Gray - Current Chief Magistrate, Magistrates' Court of Victoria
• Felicity Hampel - Prominent human rights lawyer, now judge of the County Court of Victoria
• Graeme Johnstone - State Coroner of Victoria (1994–2007)
• Murray Kellam - Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and first President of VCAT
• Lex Lasry QC - High profile barrister, Chairman of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association, human rights advocate and now Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Stuart Morris - Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Former President of VCAT
• Ross Ray - Prominent barrister, Current President of the Law Council of Australia
• Neil Rees - Current Chairman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission, foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law Faculty
• Michael Rozenes - Current Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria
• Pamela Tate - Current Justice of the Victorian Court of Appeal, former and first female Solicitor-General of Victoria
• Marilyn Warren - Current and first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Mark Weinberg - Justice of the Victorian Court of Appeal, former Chief Justice of Norfolk Island, former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.

Business

• Mark Birrell - Company Director, Former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology
• Tony D'Aloisio - Chairman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and former CEO, Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)
• Will Fowles - Melbourne property investor, youngest ever member of the Melbourne Cricket Club
• Tan Le - Technology entrepreneur, 1998 Young Australian of the Year
• Joshua Frydenberg - Prominent investment banker, now politician
• Graeme Samuel AO - Former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)

Social services and academia

• Tim Costello AO - Director of World Vision Australia
• Mick Dodson - 2009 Australian of the Year, Convenor of the ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia
• Hugh Evans - 2004 Young Australian of the Year, Author and Philanthropist
• Arie Freiberg - Prominent legal academic
• Barbara Hocking - Human rights advocate and scholar, lawyer of Eddie Mabo
• Peter Hogg QC - Canadian legal scholar
• Sarah Joseph - human rights scholar
• Ron McCallum - Prominent legal academic
• Simon Molesworth, AM, QC - Prominent environmental lawyer; Chairman, Australia Council of National Trusts
• Beth Wilson - Victorian Health Services Commissioner

Media & the Arts

• Jeffrey Browne - Executive Director of Nine Network Australia, Managing Director of Nine Network Melbourne
• Damien Carrick - presenter, ABC Radio National Law Report
• Jon Faine - Prominent Melbourne radio personality
• Campbell McComas (1952–2005) - Comedian and actor
• Louise Milligan - political journalist
• Charlie Pickering - comedian
• Elliot Perlman - writer, (Three Dollars, The Reasons I Won't Be Coming), AFI Award winner
• Matt Tilley - comedian

Sport

• Mordy Bromberg - Former AFL footballer, now Judge of the Federal Court
• Anna Millward (née Wilson) - Cyclist, two-time world champion (1999 and 2001)
• Peter Moore, AFL footballer, two-time Brownlow Medallist
• Murray Thompson - Former AFL footballer, now politician