List of judges of the Family Court of Australia

Judges of the Family Court of Australia, include the Chief Justice,^[1] Deputy Chief Justice,^[2] Judges of the Appeal Division,^[3] current,^[4] and former judges as of 24 October 2018^[update].^[5] They include judges who hold a concurrent commission with the Family Court of Western Australia.^[6]

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Position	Name	Appointment commenced	Appointment ended	Term	Comments	Notes
Chief Justice	Elizabeth Evatt	5 January 1976	5 January 1988	12 years, 0 days
	Alastair Nicholson	1 February 1988	2 July 2004	16 years, 152 days
	Diana Bryant	5 July 2004	12 October 2017	13 years, 99 days
	John Pascoe	13 October 2017	9 December 2018	1 year, 57 days		^[7]
	Will Alstergren	10 December 2018		5 years, 340 days	Joint commission as Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia	^[8]
Deputy Chief Justice	John Faulks	25 June 2004	30 October 2016	12 years, 127 days		^[9]
Deputy Chief Justice	Robert McClelland	10 December 2018		5 years, 339 days		^[10]
Judge of the Appeals Division	Steven Strickland	22 November 1999		24 years, 357 days
	Garry Watts	14 April 2005		19 years, 213 days
	Judith Ryan	31 July 2006		18 years, 105 days
	Peter Murphy	11 October 2007	1 May 2019	11 years, 202 days
	Stewart Austin	13 July 2009		15 years, 123 days
	Ann Ainslie-Wallace	9 July 2010		14 years, 127 days
	Michael Kent	12 July 2011		13 years, 124 days
	Murray Aldridge	13 December 2012		11 years, 336 days
	Peter Tree	14 January 2013		11 years, 304 days		^[11]
Judge	Austin Asche	5 January 1976	3 April 1986	10 years, 88 days
	John Marshall	5 January 1976	5 September 1982	6 years, 243 days
	Kenneth Pawley	5 January 1976	10 January 1986	10 years, 5 days
	Alan Demack	21 January 1976	15 January 1978	1 year, 359 days
	Ray Watson	21 January 1976	1 April 1994	18 years, 70 days
	John Fogarty	3 February 1976	2 October 1998	22 years, 241 days
	Harry Emery	6 February 1976	4 July 1988	12 years, 149 days
	Kemeri Murray	6 February 1976	16 December 2006	30 years, 313 days
	Rodney Charles Wood	9 February 1976	5 September 1991	15 years, 208 days
	Basil Hogan	27 February 1976	11 December 1988	12 years, 288 days
	Margaret Lusink	27 February 1976	13 August 1988	12 years, 168 days
	Travis Lindenmayer	27 February 1976	31 December 2002	26 years, 307 days
	Thomas McGovern	27 February 1976	26 October 1996	20 years, 242 days
	Graham Bell	27 February 1976	27 February 2015	39 years, 0 days
	William Griffith Dovey	27 February 1976	31 May 1989	13 years, 93 days
	William Simpson	11 June 1976	19 October 1991	15 years, 130 days
	Bryce Ross-Jones	11 June 1976	4 February 1995	18 years, 238 days
	Thomas Joske	11 June 1976	22 November 2005	29 years, 164 days
	Josephine Maxwell	21 June 1976	16 July 1999	23 years, 25 days
	Steven Strauss	12 July 1976	3 January 1994	17 years, 175 days
	John Gun	19 July 1976	20 February 1998	21 years, 223 days
	Joseph Goldstein	15 October 1976	28 February 1979	2 years, 136 days
	Hubert Frederico	15 October 1976	24 April 2003	26 years, 191 days
	Geoffrey Walsh	4 January 1977	3 June 1995	18 years, 150 days
	Adrian Smithers	17 January 1977	15 March 2002	25 years, 57 days
	Adrian Cook	17 January 1977	15 March 2002	13 years, 231 days
	Gordon Yuill	13 April 1977	10 February 1990	12 years, 303 days
	Robert Bulley	18 April 1977	17 July 1995	18 years, 90 days
	David Tonge	28 October 1977	2 January 1987	9 years, 66 days
	David Opas	31 October 1977	23 June 1980	2 years, 236 days
	Brian Treyvaud	3 November 1977	3 March 1995	17 years, 120 days
	Ernie Lambert	10 November 1977	10 August 1990	12 years, 273 days
	Edward Butler	16 November 1977	30 June 1997	19 years, 226 days
	William David Nobbs	18 November 1977	4 May 1981	3 years, 169 days
	Peter Underhill	31 January 1978	31 December 1997	19 years, 334 days
	John Ellis	31 January 1978	23 August 2004	26 years, 205 days
	John Gibson	10 July 1978	14 August 1985	7 years, 35 days
	Eric Baker	10 July 1978	19 January 1999	20 years, 193 days
	Peter Nygh	2 July 1979	10 July 1993	14 years, 8 days
	Peter Hase	10 December 1979	27 January 1998	18 years, 48 days
	John Elliott	19 December 1979	1 May 1991	11 years, 133 days
	Richard Gee	25 July 1980	1 August 1998	18 years, 7 days
	David Haese	4 September 1981	1 August 1995	13 years, 331 days
	Doreen Bulbeck	11 January 1982	26 January 1998	16 years, 15 days
	Neil Buckley	7 February 1983	31 August 2006	23 years, 205 days
	Margaret Renaud	8 September 1983	28 August 1998	14 years, 354 days
	James Barry	12 December 1983	27 June 2011	27 years, 197 days
	John Purdy	23 August 1984	23 September 2005	21 years, 31 days
	Rodney Purvis	11 March 1985	30 March 1998	13 years, 19 days
	John Wilczek	1 November 1985	11 February 2005	19 years, 102 days
	Warwick Rourke	31 January 1986	5 February 2001	15 years, 5 days
	Hugh Burton	5 June 1986	30 September 1999	13 years, 117 days
	Joseph Kay	12 June 1986	25 February 2008	21 years, 258 days
	Graham Mullane	28 July 1986	30 September 2008	22 years, 64 days
	Mary Jane Lawrie	21 August 1986	9 March 2007	20 years, 200 days
	Anthony Graham	5 June 1987	15 July 1998	11 years, 40 days
	Alwynne Rowlands	13 April 1988	10 January 2006	17 years, 272 days
	Peter Moss	2 May 1988	2 July 2000	12 years, 61 days
	John Cohen	1 February 1989	4 March 2011	22 years, 31 days
	Mary Finn	2 July 1990	3 July 2016	26 years, 1 day
	Nahum Mushin	26 October 1990	30 November 2011	21 years, 35 days
	Colleen Moore	18 April 1991	31 July 2009	18 years, 104 days
	Ian Coleman	18 April 1991	8 May 2013	22 years, 20 days
	Peter Hilton	25 July 1991	6 June 2000	8 years, 317 days
Michael Hannon	26 August 1991	20 September 2005	14 years, 25 days
Bernard Warnick	2 September 1991	31 March 2010	18 years, 210 days
Richard Chisholm	21 September 1993	14 June 2004	10 years, 267 days
Sally Brown	23 November 1993	2 June 2010	16 years, 191 days
Brian Jordan	27 July 1994	31 December 2009	15 years, 157 days
Stephen O'Ryan	11 October 1994	15 March 2011	16 years, 155 days
John Faulks	11 October 1994	25 June 2004	9 years, 258 days	Promoted to Deputy Chief Justice
Linda Dessau	20 June 1995	21 June 2013	18 years, 1 day
Susan Morgan	30 June 1995	24 February 2006	10 years, 239 days
Michelle May	5 September 1995	31 July 2017	21 years, 329 days
Christine Dawe	3 March 1997	3 March 2017	20 years, 0 days
John Steele	1 December 1997	15 January 2008	10 years, 45 days
John Jerrard	20 March 1998	29 May 2002	4 years, 70 days
Rodney Burr	2 April 1998	25 May 2012	14 years, 53 days
Paul Guest	1 May 1998	5 May 2008	10 years, 4 days
Heather Carter	1 June 1998	18 July 2008	10 years, 47 days
Lloyd Waddy	1 July 1998	22 December 2009	11 years, 174 days
Ann Robinson	7 September 1998	19 June 2002	3 years, 285 days
Michael Watt	14 December 1998	15 December 2008	10 years, 1 day
Peter Rose	21 December 1998	1 July 2011	12 years, 192 days
Robyn Flohm	17 May 1999	29 April 2010	10 years, 347 days
David Collier	19 July 1999	23 July 2013	14 years, 4 days
Jennifer Boland	29 October 1999	4 February 2011	11 years, 98 days
Robert Monteith	28 November 2000	30 November 2011	11 years, 2 days
Janine Stevenson	18 May 2001		23 years, 179 days
Mark Le Poer Trench	10 October 2001	1 November 2018	17 years, 22 days		^[12]
Peter Young	26 August 2002	9 May 2013	10 years, 256 days
Elizabeth O'Reilly	10 January 2003	31 January 2013	10 years, 21 days
Tim Carmody	7 July 2003	8 July 2008	5 years, 1 day
Stephen Thackray	1 December 2004	6 January 2019	14 years, 36 days	Chief Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia	^[13]
Robert Benjamin	19 August 2005		19 years, 86 days
Victoria Bennett	30 November 2005		18 years, 349 days
Paul Cronin	20 December 2006	18 April 2019	12 years, 119 days
Stuart Fowler	16 November 2007	14 November 2013	5 years, 363 days		^[5]
Simon Moncrieff	31 August 2009		15 years, 74 days	Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
Margaret Cleary	8 July 2010		14 years, 128 days
William Johnston	12 July 2010	4 September 2019	14 years, 124 days		^[14]
Ian Loughnan	12 July 2010		14 years, 124 days
Colin Forrest	2 February 2011		13 years, 285 days
Kirsty Macmillan	14 December 2011		12 years, 335 days
Anne Rees	15 December 2011		12 years, 334 days
Susan Duncanson	6 December 2012		11 years, 343 days	Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
John Walters	6 December 2012		11 years, 343 days	Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
Jenny Hogan	14 January 2013		11 years, 304 days
Jennifer Coate	31 January 2013	8 February 2019	6 years, 25 days		^[5]
David Berman	18 July 2013		11 years, 118 days
Sharon Johns	29 July 2013		11 years, 107 days
Garry Foster	8 August 2013		11 years, 97 days
Christine Thornton	12 August 2013	14 December 2018	5 years, 124 days		^[5]
Hilary Hannam	12 August 2013		11 years, 92 days
Catherine Carew	7 March 2016		8 years, 251 days
Richard O'Brien	12 April 2016		8 years, 215 days	Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
Shane Gill	16 May 2016		8 years, 181 days
Michael Baumann	11 January 2018		6 years, 307 days
Gail Sutherland	16 March 2018		6 years, 242 days	Chief Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
Louise Henderson	8 February 2019		5 years, 279 days
Jillian Williams	8 February 2019		5 years, 279 days
Ciara Tyson	22 February 2019		5 years, 265 days	Judge of the Family Court of Western Australia
Joshua Wilson	11 March 2019		5 years, 247 days
Robert Harper	11 March 2019		5 years, 247 days
Christine Mead	25 March 2019		5 years, 233 days
Norah Hartnett	25 March 2019		5 years, 233 days
Timothy McEvoy	27 March 2019		5 years, 231 days

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References

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