Judith Graley
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2014}}
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| constituency_AM = Narre Warren South
| assembly = Victorian Legislative
| term_start = 25 November 2006
| term_end = 24 November 2018
| predecessor = Dale Wilson
| successor = Gary Maas
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| birth_place = Sunshine, Victoria
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Judith Ann Graley (born 26 January 1957) is an Australian politician.
Graley was born in Sunshine, Victoria, and graduated from Sunshine West High School in 1974. She attended La Trobe University from 1975 to 1978, receiving a BA (Hons), and went on to receive a Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne in 1979. In 1980 she returned to La Trobe University as a tutor in the Department of Politics, and the following year became a secondary teacher at Footscray.
Judith Graley served as a local government councillor for the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council from 1997 to 2003 and was its mayor from 2000 to 2001.{{Cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/746095?c=people|title = Trove}}
She was a tutor at the University of Melbourne from 1995 to 2000, and in 2002 became electorate officer to Labor MP Alistair Harkness; she worked for Tim Holding from 2004.{{cite web
| last = Parliament of Victoria
| author-link = Parliament of Victoria
| title = Graley, Judith Ann
| work = re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851
| publisher = Parliament of Victoria
| date = 2008
| url = http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1690
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| accessdate = 21 May 2009}}
In 2006, Graley was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Narre Warren South, having defeated sitting member Dale Wilson for preselection. Graley had been supported by the Labor Right faction. She did not seek re-election at the 2018 state election and retired in October 2018.{{Cite web |date=2018-10-22 |title=Graley says farewell and thank you |url=https://berwicknews.starcommunity.com.au/news/2018-10-22/graley-says-farewell-and-thank-you/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=Berwick Star News}}{{Cite web |last=Millar |first=Royce |date=2020-11-25 |title=Former Labor MP identified as part of 'Fab Four' friends of allegedly corrupt developer |url=https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/former-labor-mp-identified-as-part-of-fab-four-friends-of-allegedly-corrupt-developer-20201125-p56hxf.html |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=The Age}}
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Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Category:Labor Right politicians
Category:Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Category:21st-century Australian politicians
Category:Women members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Category:People from Sunshine, Victoria
Category:Australian schoolteachers
Category:La Trobe University alumni
Category:University of Melbourne alumni
Category:Politicians from Melbourne
Category:21st-century Australian women politicians
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