Sir Joseph Sheehy
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The Honourable Sir Joseph Sheehy KBE |
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| Senior Puisne Judge of Queensland | |
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In office 1965–1970 |
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| Administrator of Queensland | |
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In office February 1965 – March 1965 |
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In office July 1965 – December 1965 |
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In office July 1969 – October 1969 |
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Joseph Aloysius Sheehy Gympie, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Groves |
| Children | Gabriel Joseph Sheehy |
| Parents | Jeremiah Sheehy Kate Sheehy (O'Driscoll) |
Sir Joseph Aloysius Sheehy KBE (15 April 1900 – 22 September 1971) was an Australian jurist and Senior Puisne Judge of the Queensland Supreme Court. He also served as Administrator of the Government of Queensland in 1965 and 1969, and as Queensland's Lieutenant-Governor, Deputy Governor, Acting Governor and Acting Chief Justice on several occasions.
Sheehy was born in Gympie, Queensland, the son of goldmines manager Jeremiah Sheehy and Kate Sheehy (née O'Driscoll). He was educated at the Christian Brothers School, Gympie, and at St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane (commonly referred to as simply Gregory Terrace). In 1927 Sheehy married Elizabeth Groves. They had one child, Gabriel Joseph "Joe" Sheehy, a civil and structural engineer, and five grandchildren, Gayle Sheehy, Marina Birmingham, Brett Sheehy AO, Petrina Sheehy and Matthew Sheehy.
Sheehy's brother and sister also served the State. His brother Sir Christopher Sheehy OBE was Secretary of Queensland's Wheat Board, Butter Board and Council of Agriculture, and Chair of the Australian Dairy Board, and his sister Kathleen Sheehy was a champion of special education in Queensland, being instrumental in renaming State education classes for children with disabilities from 'backward classes' to 'opportunity classes,' and was appointed head of the State's first ever Opportunity school (later renamed Special schools). Sheehy's brother-in-law Lieutenant Charles Groves (one of the legendary wartime 'Rats of Tobruk') also practised law in Queensland, being admitted as a barrister and solicitor and co-founding the law firm of Groves and Clark Solicitors, before the outbreak of the Second World War in which he was ultimately killed in the Battle of Milne Bay, New Guinea.
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