Duncan Kerr
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The Honourable Justice Duncan Kerr |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Denison |
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In office 11 July 1987 – 19 July 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Hodgman |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Wilkie |
| Attorney-General of Australia | |
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In office 1 April 1993 – 27 April 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Duffy |
| Succeeded by | Michael Lavarch |
| Minister for Justice | |
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In office 24 March 1993 – 11 March 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Tate |
| Succeeded by | Daryl Williams |
| Justice of the Federal Court of Australia | |
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Assumed office 10 May 2012 |
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| Personal details | |
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26 February 1952 Hobart, Tasmania |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Tasmania |
| Occupation | Judge |
| Profession | Barrister, Politician, Judge |
The Honourable Justice Duncan James Colquhoun Kerr (born 26 February 1952) is a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Kerr was previously a politician, as the Labor member for Denison in the Australian House of Representatives, serving between 1987 and 2010. He was Minister for Justice between 1993 and 1996, and in 1993 briefly also Attorney-General of Australia.
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Kerr was educated at the University of Tasmania, where at one stage he was President of the Tasmania University Union. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree, and later with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work.
Kerr was the Labor candidate in the Division of Braddon in the Australian federal election, 1977, losing to future Premier of Tasmania Ray Groom. In the Australian federal election in 1987, Kerr defeated the sitting Liberal member, Michael Hodgman QC, for the Hobart-based seat of Denison to become the first Labor member elected from Tasmania since the defeat of the Whitlam Government in 1975.
Kerr served in the Australian House of Representatives as Member for Denison from 11 July 1987 to 19 July 2010. Prior to entering politics, Kerr acted as Crown Counsel in the Tasmanian Solicitor-General's Department, as lecturer in constitutional law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Papua New Guinea, and as Principal Solicitor for the NSW Aboriginal Legal Service.
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