Xavier Connor

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{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Short description|Australian judge (1917 - 2005)}}

Francis Xavier Connor {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO|QC}} (12 December 1917 - 27 December 2005) was an Australian jurist.

Known professionally as Xavier Connor, he was Chair of the Victorian Bar Council from 1967 to 1969.{{Cite web|url=http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ALRCRefJl/2005/34.html|title=Weisbrot, David --- "Justice Xavier Connor Ao" [2005] ALRCRefJl 34; (2005) 87 Australian Law Reform Commission Reform Journal 68|website=classic.austlii.edu.au|access-date=2018-11-01}} He was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory in 1972 and was made a foundation judge of the Federal Court of Australia in 1977, serving on this court until 1982.{{Cite web|url=https://www.alrc.gov.au/about/commissioners/past-presidents/justice-xavier-connor-ao|title=Hon Xavier Connor AO QC|date=2010-06-02|website=www.alrc.gov.au|language=en|access-date=2018-11-01}}

Justice Connor served as President of the Australian Law Reform Commission from 1985 to 1987, President of the Courts-Martial Appeal Tribunal (1979), Chairman of the Parole Board of the ACT (1978-1985), Head of the Board of Inquiry into Casinos in Victoria (1982) and Chairman of the Committee of Review of the Special Broadcasting Service (1994).