UNSW Faculty of Law - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Over its 40 year history the Faculty has produced a number of Rhodes Scholars, Fulbright Scholarship, Lionel Murphy overseas scholarship and Goldman Sachs leadership awards winners. Notable alumni include:

Judges

  • Bob Bellear, NSW District Court; Australia's first Aboriginal judge (LLB 1978)
  • Annabelle Bennett, Federal Court of Australia
  • Elizabeth Fullerton, NSW Supreme Court
  • Andrew Haesler, NSW District Court
  • Anna Katzmann, Federal Court of Australia
  • Megan Latham, NSW Supreme Court
  • Lucy McCallum, NSW Supreme Court (LLB 1986)
  • Tony Meagher, NSW Court of Appeal
  • Matthew Myers, Family Court of Australia, first Indigenous Australian Commonwealth judicial officer
  • John Nicholas, Federal Court of Australia
  • Pat O'Shane, Magistrate; former Chancellor of the University of New England; Australia's first Aboriginal barrister (LLB 1976)
  • Barnabas Wah Fung, former Chief District Judge of Hong Kong, current Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong
  • Ann Ainslie-Wallace, Family Court judge since 2010, NSW District Court judge from 1997-2010 (LLB 1978)

Lawyers

  • Chris Craigie SC, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
  • Stuart Littlemore QC, barrister, writer and host of ABC's Media Watch

Politicians

  • Andrew Cheng, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong
  • Michael Forshaw, Senator
  • Peter Garrett, musician and politician, Commonwealth Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (LLB 1977)
  • Brad Hazzard, NSW Member of Parliament
  • Robert McClelland, former Commonwealth Attorney General (LLB 1981)
  • Melissa Parke, United Nations senior lawyer, member of the House of Representatives
  • Marise Payne, Senator
  • Gabrielle Upton, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Vaucluse

Other

  • Monica Attard, award-winning Australian journalist
  • Larissa Behrendt, Aboriginal writer
  • Satyajit Das, international expert and consultant on financial derivatives, risk management and capital markets
  • David Gonski, prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW

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