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Balmford, Rosemary Anne (1933 - )

Judge and Ornithologist

Born: 15 September 1933 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Rosemary Anne Balmford was Victoria's first female Supreme Court Judge (1996) and the University of Melbourne’s first female Lecturer in the Faculty of Law (1957). She retired from the bench in 2003 after a distinguished forty-plus year legal career. Balmford was also a keen amateur naturalist with a special interest in ornithology. Her contributions to this field were almost equal to those in Australian law. She served as Secretary of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) and wrote several important books on birds in Australia.

Career Highlights

Chronology
c. 1960 Bachelor of Laws (LLB) completed at the University of Melbourne
1969 - 1972 Secretary to the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU)
1978 A bird atlas of the Melbourne region (co-authored with HI Aston) published
1980 - 1982 Secretary of the Victorian Ornithological Research Group
1981 Learning about Australian Birds published
1983 - 1993 Senior Member of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal
1989 - 1992 Councillor of the State Library of Victoria
1990 The beginner's guide to Australian birds published
1993 Miserable as an orphan bandicoot on a burnt ridge: Australian natural history and the Australian language published
1993 - 1996 Judge of the County Court of Victoria
1996 - 2003 (Hon) Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
1998 Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) received from Monash University in Clayton, Victoria

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Prepared by: Annette Alafaci
Created: 13 September 2006
Modified: 13 December 2006

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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