Person
Balmford, Rosemary Anne (1933 - )
- Born
- 15 September 1933
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Judge and Ornithologist
Summary
Rosemary Anne Balmford was Victoria's first female Supreme Court Judge (1996) and the University of Melbourne's first female Lecturer in the Faculty of Law (1957). She retired from the bench in 2003 after a distinguished forty-plus year legal career. Balmford was also a keen amateur naturalist with a special interest in ornithology. Her contributions to this field were almost equal to those in Australian law. She served as Secretary of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) and wrote several important books on birds in Australia.
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Chronology
- c. 1960
- Education - Bachelor of Laws (LLB) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1969 - 1972
- Career position - Secretary to the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU)
- 1978
- Career position - A bird atlas of the Melbourne region (co-authored with HI Aston) published
- 1980 - 1982
- Career position - Secretary of the Victorian Ornithological Research Group
- 1981
- Career position - Learning about Australian Birds published
- 1983 - 1993
- Career position - Senior Member of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal
- 1989 - 1992
- Career position - Councillor of the State Library of Victoria
- 1990
- Career position - The beginner's guide to Australian birds published
- 1993
- Career position - Miserable as an orphan bandicoot on a burnt ridge: Australian natural history and the Australian language published
- 1993 - 1996
- Career position - Judge of the County Court of Victoria
- 1996 - 2003
- Career position - (Hon) Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
- 1998
- Education - Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) received from Monash University in Clayton, Victoria
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q53333930. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/23422422. Details
- 'Balmford, Rosemary (19330915-20170808)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-546640. Details
Annette Alafaci
Created: 13 September 2006, Last modified: 7 February 2011