Judith Ann Graley (born 26 January 1957) is an Australian politician. Graley was born in

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, Victoria, and graduated from Sunshine West High School in 1974. She attended

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from 1975 to 1978, receiving a

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, and went on to receive a

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from the

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in 1979. In 1980 she returned to La Trobe University as a tutor in the Department of Politics, and the following year became a secondary teacher at Footscray. Judith Graley served as a local government councillor for the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council from 1997 to 2003 and was its mayor from 2000 to 2001. She was a tutor at the University of Melbourne from 1995 to 2000, and in 2002 became electorate officer to

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MP Alistair Harkness; she worked for Tim Holding from 2004. In 2006, Graley was elected to the

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as the Labor member for Narre Warren South, having defeated sitting member Dale Wilson for preselection. Graley had been supported by the

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faction. She did not seek re-election at the 2018 state election and retired in October 2018.

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