Elizabeth Evatt
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Elizabeth Evatt AC |
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| Born |
Elizabeth Andreas Evatt 11 November 1933 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater |
University of Sydney; Harvard University |
| Occupation | Reformist lawyer and jurist |
| Known for | First Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia |
| Parent(s) | Clive Evatt |
| Relatives |
Harry Andreas (grandfather); H. V. Evatt (uncle) |
Elizabeth Andreas Evatt, AC (born 11 November 1933), an eminent Australian reformist lawyer and jurist who sat on numerous national and international tribunals and commissions, was the first Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia, the first female judge of an Australian federal court, and the first Australian to be elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
Evatt was born in 1933, the daughter of the barrister Clive Evatt QC, granddaughter of Harry Andreas of Leuralla, and the niece of H. V. Evatt. Educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Pymble, Sydney, Evatt studied law at the University of Sydney, as the youngest law student ever accepted, and became the first female student to win the University's Medal for Law, graduating in March 1955. Admitted as at barrister in New South Wales in 1955, Evatt won a scholarship to Harvard University where she was awarded a LLM in 1956 and was admitted to the bar at the Inner Temple in London, United Kingdom. From 1968 to 1973, Evatt worked at the England and Wales Law Commission under Lord Scarman.
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