Margaret Beazley

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Her Excellency The Honourable
Margaret Beazley
AC, QC, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
39th Governor of New South Wales
Assumed office
2 May 2019 (2019-05-02)
Monarch Elizabeth II
Premier Gladys Berejiklian
Lieutenant Tom Bathurst
Preceded by David Hurley
9th President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
In office
1 March 2013 – 27 February 2019
Preceded by James Allsop
Succeeded by Andrew Bell
Judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
In office
28 March 1996 – 1 March 2013
Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
In office
1 January 1993 – 28 April 1996
Personal details
Born (1951-07-23) 23 July 1951 (age 72)
Sydney, New South Wales
Nationality  Australia
Spouse(s)
  • Alan Sullivan (divorced)
  • Dennis Wilson
Children Erin, Lauren and Anthony Sullivan
Education
Alma mater University of Sydney

Margaret Joan Beazley, AC, QC, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (born 23 July 1951) is an Australian jurist who is the 39th and current governor of New South Wales, serving since 2 May 2019. She was the president of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, the first woman to hold the office, from 2013 until February 2019.[1]

Early life

Beazley was born in Hurstville, Sydney, one of five children born to Gordon and Lorna Beazley; her father worked as a milkman. She grew up in the suburb of Hurstville, and was educated at Catholic schools – St Declan's Primary School in Penshurst, St Joseph's Girls High School in Kogarah, and Mount Saint Joseph, Milperra.[2] Beazley graduated from the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney in 1974 in law, with honours.[3][1]

Career

Beazley served her articles of clerkship with Winter & Sharp, and was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1975. She was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1989.[2]

Beazley was a Judicial Member of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal from 1984 to 1988. She was an Acting District Court Judge from 1990 to 1991. From 1991 to 1992, Beazley served as Assistant Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. She was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1993 to 1996, an additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory from 1994 to 1997, and a judge of the Industrial Relations Court of Australia from 1994 to 1996.[4]

From 1996 to 2019, she was a Judge of Appeal of the New South Wales Court of Appeal. She was President of the court, the first woman to hold the office, from 2013[5] until February 2019.[6][7]

Beazley has also served on the Australian Executive of Amnesty International (1980).

In January 2019 Beazley accepted the position of 39th Governor of New South Wales,[8] succeeding David Hurley,[9] and was sworn in as governor on 2 May 2019.[1][10] In 2020, she was promoted to Companion of the Order of Australia for eminent service to the people of New South Wales, particularly through leadership roles in the judiciary, and as a mentor of young women lawyers.[11][12]

Titles, styles and honours

Titles

Viceregal styles of
Margaret Beazley
Badge of the Governor of New South Wales.svg
Reference style Her Excellency
Spoken style Your Excellency
Alternative style Ma'am

The Governor's style and title in full is: Her Excellency The Honourable Margaret Beazley, Companion of the Order of Australia, Queen's Counsel, Governor of the State of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia.

Honours and awards

OrderAustraliaRibbon.png Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) 2020[11]
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 2006[13]
Order of St John (UK) ribbon.png Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem 2019[14]

Honorary appointments

Honorary degrees

Personal life

Beazley is married to Dennis Wilson. She has three adult children from her first marriage to barrister Alan Sullivan.[21][22] She and Sullivan were reportedly "the first husband and wife from the private legal profession to become QCs".[23]

See also

References

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Government offices
Preceded by Governor of New South Wales
2019–present		 Incumbent
Legal offices
Preceded by President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
2013–2019		 Succeeded by
Andrew Bell
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