Donald Stewart (judge)

{{Short description|Australian judge}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|11|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|7|14|1928|11|25|df=y}}

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| known_for = Fighting police corruption, Combatting drug trafficking.

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| occupation = Judge, Royal Commissioner, Police Officer, Writer

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Donald Gerard Stewart (25 November 1928 – 14 July 2016){{cite web|url=http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/obituary.aspx?n=donald-stewart&pid=180709425&fhid=16393|title=Donald STEWART's Obituary on The Sydney Morning Herald|work=smh.com.au|accessdate=13 August 2016}} was an Australian judge, barrister, police officer, Royal Commissioner, and founding chairman of the National Crime Authority of Australia. He spent a lifetime fighting police corruption and drug trafficking and detailed many of his experiences in his memoirs Recollections of an Unreasonable Man. He attended Sydney Boys High School from 1941 to 1946.{{Cite web|url=http://www.shsobu.org.au/wp-content/uploads/judges.pdf|title=Judges|website=www.shsobu.org.au|access-date=2016-07-15|archive-date=23 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323090436/http://www.shsobu.org.au/wp-content/uploads/judges.pdf|url-status=dead}} He died in 2016 at the age of 87.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/former-judge-corruption-fighter-donald-stewart-dies-aged-86/news-story/08bf1d2dd6ad1e307a3377c2a8603369|title=Former judge, corruption fighter Donald Stewart dies aged 87|last=|first=|date=14 July 2016|website=The Australian|access-date=2016-07-15}}