Susan Crennan

Susan Crennan
The Honourable Justice
Susan Maree Crennan
AC QC BA LLB,
Puisne Justice of the High Court of Australia
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 November 2005
Appointed by John Howard
Preceded by Michael McHugh
Personal details
Born 1 July 1945
Nationality Australian

Susan Maree Crennan AC (born 1 July 1945), is an Australian judge, a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.

Biography

Crennan was born in Victoria, one of six children born to John Maurice Walsh and Marie Therese (née Henley), Roman Catholics of Irish descent. She attended Our Lady of Mercy College, Heidelberg and the University of Melbourne, where she received a Bachelor of Arts. She later received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney. Crennan also completed a post-graduate diploma at the University of Melbourne on the constitutional history of the state of Victoria.

She was a teacher of English literature, and was employed by various patent attorneys in New South Wales and Victoria between 1967-1978. She was admitted as a barrister in New South Wales in 1979 and Victoria in 1980. She was made Queen's Counsel in Victoria in 1989 and New South Wales in 1990. From 1992-1997, Crennan served as a commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, the peak human rights body in Australia. In 1993, Crennan was the first woman to be appointed chair of the Victorian Bar Council, and the following year the first female president of the Australian Bar Association. Between 2003-2005, she was a member of the Council of the University of Melbourne. Crennan was appointed to the Federal Court in 2003 and took her seat on the bench on 3 February 2004.

On 20 September 2005 it was announced that she would replace Justice Michael McHugh in the High Court. Attorney-General of Australia Philip Ruddock, on announcing Crennan's appointment, said that Crennan "demonstrated, through the quality of her jurisprudence and her leadership, that she has the confidence of the legal profession and the broader Australian community". She was sworn in to the High Court by Chief Justice Murray Gleeson on 8 November 2005 [1]. The appointment made her the second female Justice to sit on the bench of the High Court of Australia, the first being Justice Mary Gaudron.

In January 2008 she was awarded the highest honour in the Australia Day List, an Order of Australia: Companion (AC) in the general division. The citation is as follows: The Honourable Justice Susan Maree CRENNAN Vic "For outstanding service to the law and the judiciary, particularly through leadership and mentoring roles with legal and professional associations, as a contributor to reform, and to the community."

Crennan is due to retire in 2015 when she will be seventy years old.

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