Susan Crennan
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The Honourable Susan Crennan AC QC |
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| Justice of the High Court of Australia | |
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In office 1 November 2005 – 2 February 2015 |
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| Nominated by | John Howard |
| Appointed by | Michael Jeffery |
| Preceded by | Michael McHugh |
| Succeeded by | Geoffrey Nettle |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Susan Maree Walsh 1 July 1945 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Crennan |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
University of Melbourne Sydney Law School |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Susan Maree Crennan AC QC (born 1 July 1945), is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.
Crennan was born in Melbourne, one of six children born to John Maurice Walsh and Marie Therese (née Henley), Roman Catholics of Irish descent. She attended Our Lady of Mercy College, Heidelberg and the University of Melbourne, where she received a Bachelor of Arts. She later received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney. Crennan also completed a Postgraduate Diploma (History) at the University of Melbourne on the constitutional history of the state of Victoria.
Crennan was a teacher of English literature and was employed by various patent attorneys in New South Wales and Victoria between 1967–1978. She was admitted as a barrister in New South Wales in 1979 and Victoria in 1980. She was made Queen's Counsel in Victoria in 1989 and in New South Wales in 1990. From 1992–1997, Crennan served as a commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (now the Australian Human Rights Commission), the peak human rights body in Australia. In 1993, Crennan was the first woman to be appointed chair of the Victorian Bar Council, and the following year the first female president of the Australian Bar Association. Between 2003–2005, she was a member of the Council of the University of Melbourne.
Crennan was appointed to the Federal Court in 2003 and took her seat on the bench on 3 February 2004.
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