Lawyers Weekly report
The Prime Minister and Attorney-General have today announced the new chief justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
In a statement earlier today (Friday 31 March), Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said that Governor General David Hurley has accepted the federal government’s advice to appoint the Honourable Justice Debra Mortimer (pictured) as the nation’s new Chief Justice of the Federal Court.
Mortimer J has served on the Federal Court since 2013 and is, the PM and A-G noted, “widely recognised for her legal acumen, intellectual capacity and judicial leadership”.
Her Honour becomes just the fifth CJ of the Federal Court since its inception in 1976, and the first woman to assume the role.
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