Mary Gaudron
1943–2026Mary Genevieve Gaudron was an Australian lawyer and judge who, in 1987, became the first woman appointed to the High Court of Australia.
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Mary Genevieve Gaudron was born on January 5, 1943, in Moree, north-west New South Wales. She studied law at Sydney University on a scholarship, and in 1972 became the first woman admitted to the New South Wales Bar, later becoming the first woman appointed to the NSW Bar Council. She built her early practice in defamation and industrial law before serving as Solicitor-General of New South Wales from 1981 to 1987.
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