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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2006-09-13 human Annette Alafaci updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004718b.htm person Balmford Rosemary Anne AACR2 15 September 1933 8 August 2017 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Judge Ornithologist 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. c. 1960 c. 1960 Education - Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Melbourne 1969 1972 Career position - Secretary to the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) 1978 1978 Career position - A bird atlas of the Melbourne region (co-authored with HI Aston) published 1980 1982 Career position - Secretary, Victorian Ornithological Research Group 1981 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 1990 Career position - The beginner's guide to Australian birds published 1993 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 1998 Education - Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD), Monash University, Clayton, Victoria

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