Sean Bowden (born 22 September 1970) is a former
Australian rules footballer, later a lawyer. He played for the
Richmond Football Club in the
Australian Football League (AFL) and Port Melbourne in the
Victorian Football Association
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in 1990 and 1991.
A Law (Honors) graduate from the
University of Melbourne
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, who grew up in Central Australia, Bowden is the founding partner of
Northern Territory
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law firm Bowden McCormack Lawyers + Advisers. He is also a director of AFL Northern Territory Ltd.
Bowden was drafted by Richmond with pick 103 in the
1988 VFL draft and started the
1990 AFL season by becoming the 920th player to debut with the Tigers. He played the first five games of the season and then one final game in
1991
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. Bowden was the second in his family to pull on the yellow-and-black following father
Michael
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who was a
1969 Premiership player. Later brothers
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and
Patrick also played for Richmond.
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1970 births
Living people
Richmond Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Port Melbourne Football Club players
Sportspeople from Mildura
People from Alice Springs
Melbourne Law School alumni
21st-century Australian lawyers