James S. Douglas (born 9 February 1950) is justice of the

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in the Trial Division. He has sat on the court since 2003 and served between 2005 and 2010 as president of Alliance Française de Brisbane Inc. He was educated at Villanova College in Coorparoo. He is a graduate of the Law Faculties at

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and

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. On 8 July 2021, Prime Minister Scott Morrison named him as one of the commissioners appointed to conduct a royal commission into defence suicides.

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Judges of the Supreme Court of Queensland Living people 1950 births {{Australia-law-bio-stub