Monash Law graduate appointed as Victoria's new Chief Justice
8 August 2017
Monash Law School congratulates alumna the Honourable Justice Anne Ferguson (LLB/BA 1982) on her appointment as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Justice Ferguson is the second Monash Law graduate to be appointed Chief Justice of Victoria.
Fittingly, Justice Ferguson will replace retiring Chief Justice Marilyn Warren, also a Monash Law graduate and the only other woman to have held the role.
The appointment was announced by Victorian Attorney-General Martin Pakula.
“Justice Ferguson is widely respected in the Victorian legal profession and by her judicial colleagues for her intellect, leadership and extensive knowledge of the law,” says Mr Pakula.
“Justice Ferguson has a legal career spanning more than three decades and has a wealth of experience working as a judge of the Court of Appeal and as a leading solicitor.”
Justice Ferguson, currently a Victorian Court of Appeal judge, will be the twelfth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. She is the first solicitor to be appointed Chief Justice.
Justice Ferguson was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2010 and to the Court of Appeal in 2014. Prior to her appointment as a judge, Justice Ferguson was a partner at law firm Allens Arthur Robinson, working in insolvency and commercial litigation.
As a solicitor, Justice Ferguson worked on some of Australia’s highest profile corporate cases, including the complex litigation that followed the collapses of Opes Prime and the Pyramid Building Society.
Justice Ferguson was admitted to legal practice in 1984. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Monash University, where she won the Supreme Court Prize for the top law student. She also holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Law from the University of Southampton, where she specialised in unfair contracts.
She will take up her appointment as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in early October 2017.