Margaret Cunneen
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Margaret Cunneen SC |
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Margaret Mary Cunneen 15 January 1959 Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Employer | New South Wales Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions |
| Children | 3 (sons) |
Margaret Mary Cunneen SC (born 15 January 1959 in Sydney) is an Australian barrister, prosecutor and commissioner of a government inquiry.
Cunneen was born at St. Margaret's Hospital in Darlinghurst, the daughter of John and Catherine Cunneen. Her father was a civil engineer who became chief of the NSW Water Resources Commission. Cunneen grew up in the south western suburbs of Sydney, was educated at Santa Sabina College, Strathfield.
She joined the Attorney General's Department in 1977, working in the Ministerial office. She was an Industrial Officer at the Public Service Board of NSW from 1981 to 1986, when she transferred to what is now the New South Wales Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions where her immediate manager was Megan Latham. After commencing study part-time in 1977, she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the NSW Institute of Technology in 1982 and a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney in 1989. In 1982, she was admitted a legal practitioner of the New South Wales Supreme Court. In 2014 she was awarded the Law Alumni Award by the University of Technology.
Cunneen is a Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor in the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and has held a commission as a Crown Prosecutor since 1990. She came to prominence when she prosecuted a series of highly publicised pedophiles and several notable gang rape and murder trials.
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