Anna Katzmann
{{Short description|Australian judge}}
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Anna Judith Katzmann SC is an Australian lawyer and a current judge of the Federal Court of Australia.{{cite web|url=http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/about/judges/current-judges-appointment/current-judges/katzmann-j|title=Biography of Justice Katzmann |publisher=Federal Court of Australia|accessdate=30 April 2013}} Katzmann is a graduate of the University of New South Wales.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/sites/law.unsw.edu.au/files/ebooks/ug/2013/files/assets/seo/page22.html|title=UNSW Law Graduates|publisher=University of New South Wales|accessdate=30 April 2013}} Before her appointment as a justice of the Federal Court, Katzmann was the President of the New South Wales Bar Association.{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/dragged-kicking-and-screaming--finally-the-bar-relents-on-selecting-silks-20101007-169w1.html|title=Dragged kicking and screaming – finally the bar relents on selecting silks|last=Gibson|first=Joel|date=8 October 2010|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=30 April 2013}}
Early life and education
Katzmann grew up in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, attending Clovelly Primary School, completing her primary education at Woollahra Demonstration School. Katzmann attended the academically selective Sydney Girls High School where she was elected school captain. She studied arts and law at the University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws and Honours in Arts in 1979.{{cite web |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/NSWBarAssocNews/2010/34.pdf |title=The Hon Justice Anna Katzmann – Appointment}} (2010 Winter) Bar News: Journal of the NSW Bar Association 129.
Career
Katzmann became a barrister after graduating, also working as a lecturer at the NSW Institute of Technology. She was appointed Senior Counsel in 1997. Katzmann was elected as a member of the Bar Council continuously from 1994 until 2010, holding every position, including as president from late 2007 until 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/FedJSchol/2010/33.html |title=Swearing in and welcome of the Honourable Justice Katzmann}} [2010] Federal Judicial Scholarship 33.
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