Margaret Jean White (born 4 June 1943) is a former

Supreme Court of Queensland The Supreme Court of Queensland is the highest court in the Australian State of Queensland. It was formerly the Brisbane Supreme Court, in the colony of Queensland. The original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court allows its trial division to he ...

justicethe first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Queensland. White was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1992 and was elevated to an Appeals Court Justice in 2010 until retirement in 2013. She has also previously served as a law lecturer at the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = ...

Royal commission

In August 2016, White was appointed joint Commissioner with Mick Gooda for the

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, replacing

Brian Ross Martin Brian Ross Martin (born 2 September 1947) is an Australian jurist. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia before being appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in 2004. He served in the Northern ...

Naval service

White became an inaugural member of the revived

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Reserve (WRANSR) in 1968. She served as a commander in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve from 2002 to 2010.

Order of Australia

White was appointed as an

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(AO) in the

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for "distinguished service to the judiciary and the law, through leadership in administration, contributions to education and law reform, and to the community of Queensland."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:White, Margaret 1943 births Living people Judges of the Supreme Court of Queensland Fellows of the Australian Academy of Law Australian women judges University of Queensland faculty Officers of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Centenary Medal People from Adelaide Adelaide Law School alumni Royal Australian Navy officers People from Hamilton, Victoria