List of magistrates of the Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory

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Listed below are Magistrates of the Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory, as of June 2019, including Chief Magistrates, Magistrates and Special Magistrates.[1][2]

Prior to 1949, the person holding the office of Police Magistrate at either Queanbeyan or Goulburn exercised the power of Magistrate in the Australian Capital Territory.[1]

Position Name Term begin Term end Term Notes
Chief Magistrate Charles Kilduff [a] 28 November 1974 14 March 1980 5 years, 107 days
Clarence Hermes [a] 4 December 1980 29 February 1984 3 years, 87 days
Ronald Cahill [a] 28 March 1985 17 November 2009 24 years, 234 days
John Burns [a] 15 December 2009 29 July 2011 1 year, 226 days
Lorraine Walker [a] 13 October 2011 12 years, 202 days
Acting Chief Magistrate Kevin Townley Dobson 29 February 1984 March 27, 1985 1 year, 27 days
Magistrate [b] Francis Keane 30 November 1949 28 October 1966 16 years, 332 days [3]
John Desmond Button 14 May 1959 30 June 1962 3 years, 47 days
Clarence Hermes [c] 6 December 1963 23 April 1970 6 years, 138 days
Kevin Townley Dobson [c] 13 December 1963 28 February 1984 20 years, 77 days
28 March 1985 28 April 1986 1 year, 31 days
Eric Sterndale Pearson 19 October 1967 19 February 1976 8 years, 123 days
Warren Keith Nicholl 28 May 1971 6 November 1977 6 years, 162 days
John Joseph Dainer 10 May 1973 23 July 1993 20 years, 74 days
Charles Kilduff [c] 10 April 1974 27 November 1974 231 days
Ronald Cahill [c] 22 September 1977 27 March 1985 7 years, 186 days
Michael Anthony Somes 13 January 1986 31 July 2007 21 years, 199 days
Michael Ward 21 April 1986 30 June 1998 12 years, 70 days
Peter Geoffrey Dingwall 26 April 1990 17 August 2016 26 years, 113 days
John Burns [c] 26 April 1990 December 14, 2009 19 years, 232 days
Karen Fryar 6 September 1993 8 March 2019 25 years, 183 days
Shane Madden 19 December 1996 10 July 2009 12 years, 203 days
Beth Campbell 5 August 1998 25 years, 271 days
Maria Doogan 5 August 1998 30 March 2012 13 years, 238 days
Grant Lalor 1 February 2004 29 May 2012 8 years, 118 days
Lorraine Walker [c] 19 July 2010 12 October 2011 1 year, 85 days
David Mossop 23 December 2011 21 May 2013 1 year, 149 days
Peter Morrison 14 February 2012 12 years, 78 days
Bernadette Boss 11 June 2012 11 years, 326 days
Robert Matthew Cook 11 September 2013 10 years, 234 days
Glenn Theakston 30 May 2016 7 years, 338 days
Louise Taylor 10 August 2018 5 years, 266 days
James Lawton 6 May 2019 4 years, 362 days
James Stewart 6 May 2019 4 years, 362 days
Special Magistrate John Goodwin 25 November 1930 6 September 1936 5 years, 286 days
Sir Robert Garran 27 March 1942
Arthur Percival 28 November 1946
Robert McKillop 14 May 1947
Francis Keane [d] 18 May 1947 29 November 1949 2 years, 195 days [3]
28 October 1966
Sidney Rhodes 9 July 1947 6 October 1953 6 years, 89 days
Frank Clifton Green 9 July 1947
Frank Gordon Thorpe 9 July 1947 23 December 1953 6 years, 167 days
Charles Francis Denton 21 March 1957
John Llanover Davies 16 April 1957
Geoffrey Sawer 16 April 1957
Edmond Monaghan Debenham 9 August 1962
Everard Roy Harvey 20 September 1962
Keith Stacey Edmonds 5 April 1963
Martin Sylvester Meagher 23 April 1963
Alexander John Paton 24 August 1967
Brian Frederick Lake Crommelin 23 November 1967
Rexton James Humby 17 April 1968
William Stilwell Flynn 30 April 1968
John Roderick Scarlett 27 March 1969
Charles Kingsley Ward 27 March 1969
Clement Lewis Fischer 29 June 1970
Thomas Francis Price 26 August 1976
Eric Sterndale Pearson [d] 26 August 1976
Alan Eugene Hogan 22 September 1977 5 June 1989 11 years, 256 days
Desmond O'Connor 16 February 1978
David Bruce Nichols 19 October 1978
Charles Kilduff [d] 27 March 1980 4 November 1981 1 year, 222 days
Anthony William Wynne 9 July 1982
James Joseph O'Neill 27 January 1983
Kevin Townley Dobson [d] 20 August 1986
John Martin Murphy 19 May 1988
Marcus Kessell Bannister 14 October 1988
Alan Anthony Hardiman 24 November 1988
Douglas William Smith 14 December 1989 1 July 1994 4 years, 199 days
John Joseph Dainer [d] 3 March 1994
Christine Susan Harvey 30 September 1994
Elizabeth Marjorie Symons 30 September 1994 30 September 2004 10 years, 0 days
Garry George Dellar 30 September 1994
Warren Keith Nicholl [d] 20 February 1996
Michael Ward 20 July 1998 30 August 1998 41 days
22 September 1998 30 October 1998 38 days
Michael Henry Peedom 11 November 1998 10 November 2005 6 years, 364 days
Phillip Raymond Thompson 12 September 2000 28 February 2006 5 years, 169 days
Ian Henry Pike 29 September 2001 28 August 2002 364 days
Grant Lalor [d] 25 June 2002 13 December 2002 171 days
Kenneth Cush 13 October 2008 30 June 2010 1 year, 260 days
3 June 2013 15 December 2018 5 years, 195 days
Bill Stefaniak 17 November 2008 2 February 2009 77 days
Graeme Lunney 16 May 2011 15 May 2014 2 years, 364 days
Christopher Chenoweth 16 May 2011 15 May 2014 2 years, 364 days
Maria Doogan [d] 3 June 2013 6 May 2017 3 years, 337 days
Margaret Hunter 21 May 2014 9 years, 347 days
Dominic Mulligan 21 May 2014 6 May 2017 2 years, 350 days

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Chief Magistrate who previously served as Magistrate.
  2. ^ Magistrates were known as Stipendiary Magistrates from 1951 to 1986.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Magistrate who later served as Chief Magistrate.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Special Magistrate who has also served as a Magistrate.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Former and Current Magistrates". Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory. ACT Government. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Special Magistrates". Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b Tilse, Sheila. "Keane, Francis Charles Patrick (1901–1971)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538.
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