Her Honour
In 1976 Jay Sanders became the first woman appointed as a Magistrate in South Australia. When she retired in 2002 she was the longest serving female magistrate in Australia.
Sources used to compile this entry: Haxton, Nance, 'Australia's first female magistrate* retires', 20 December 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s751764.htm.
Prepared by Larissa Halonkin
Created: 17 August 2016, Last modified: 30 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.
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What do we mean by this?
Published by the Australian Women's Archives Project 2016
ISBN 978-0-7340-5406-7
http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers/biogs/AWE5907b.htm