Julie Ward (judge)
{{Short description|Australian judge}}
{{For|other people with the same name|Julie Ward (disambiguation){{!}}Julie Ward}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = The Honourable Justice
| name = Julie Kathryn Ward
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| office = President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
| term_start = 7 March 2022
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| predecessor = Andrew Bell
| office2 = Judge of the Supreme Court of NSW
| term_start2 = 29 September 2008
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| office3 = Judge of Appeal
| term_start3 = 12 November 2012
| term_end3 = 5 March 2022
| office4 = Chief Judge in Equity
| term_start4 = 15 March 2017
| term_end4 = 5 March 2022
| predecessor4 = Patricia Bergin
| successor4 = David Hammerschlag
| occupation = Judge, Solicitor
| alma_mater = University of Sydney
University of Oxford
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Julie Kathryn Ward is the President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal within the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the highest court in the State of New South Wales, Australia.
Education
Ward studied French and Law at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1982 with First Class Honours and the university medal.{{Cite web |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/NSWJSchol/2008/19.html |title=Swearing in Ceremony of Justice Julie Ward |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516105104/http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/NSWJSchol/2008/19.html |archivedate=16 May 2017 |df=dmy-all }} [2008] NSW Judicial Scholarship 19. After graduation Ward served as associate to Justice Nigel Bowen, the first Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. She then commenced as a solicitor at Stephen Jaques Stone James (later Mallesons Stephen Jacques, now King & Wood Mallesons) in 1982.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/trailblazer-to-nsw-supreme-court/2008/08/03/1217701853623.html |title=First woman set to fast-forward to the NSW Supreme Court |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |author=Harvey, E |date=4 August 2008 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107051232/http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/trailblazer-to-nsw-supreme-court/2008/08/03/1217701853623.html |archivedate=7 November 2017 |df=dmy-all }} Ward later received a post-graduate scholarship from Sydney Law School and studied at the University of Oxford.
Career
In 1988, Ward was made a partner at Mallesons. In 2008 she was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Ward is among the very few solicitors, and the first woman, to have been appointed directly to the bench. After four years as a trial judge Ward was appointed to the Court of Appeal. In 2017 Ward was appointed Chief Judge in Equity, and in 2022 she was appointed President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal.{{Cite web |title=New President of the Court of Appeal |url=https://www.dcj.nsw.gov.au/news-and-media/media-releases/2022/new-president-of-the-court-of-appeal.html |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=NSW Department of Communities and Justice}}
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Category:University of Sydney alumni
Category:Sydney Law School alumni
Category:Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales