Lillian Lieder

Died

2001

Occupation

Barrister and Lawyer

Jurisdiction

VIC - State

The late Lillian Lieder QC and Betty King QC (later Justice King, Supreme Court of Victoria) joined the Bar in the mid-1970s. In 1992, they were the first women barristers practising in criminal law to take silk.

Sources used to compile this entry: 'And what do we have here?!' The first (25) women to sign the Victorian Bar Roll - some personal reminiscences [Slideshow]; Women Barristers in Victoria: Then and Now, 2007, https://www.vicbar.com.au/wba/.

Prepared by Larissa Halonkin

Created: 17 August 2016, Last modified: 29 August 2016

This exhibition is an outcome from 'The Trailblazing Women and the Law' project, a collaboration between the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.

This research was generously supported by the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects funding scheme (project number LP120200367), and project partners: Australian Women Lawyers, Family Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, National Foundation for Australian Women and the National Library of Australia.

Data in this exhibition is up-to-date to 30 June 2016.
Further information about data collection and currency.

Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager, a tool developed by the eScholarship Research Centre, part of the University Library at the University of Melbourne.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Published by the Australian Women's Archives Project 2016
ISBN 978-0-7340-5406-7
http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers/biogs/AWE5852b.htm