Tom Bathurst
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The Honourable Chief Justice Tom Bathurst AC |
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| 17th Chief Justice of New South Wales | |
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Assumed office 1 June 2011 |
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| Nominated by | Barry O'Farrell |
| Appointed by | Dame Marie Bashir |
| Preceded by | James Spigelman |
| 21st Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales | |
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Assumed office 1 June 2011 |
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| Governor |
Marie Bashir David Hurley |
| Preceded by | James Spigelman |
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| Born |
17 March 1948 Richmond, Surrey, England, UK |
| Nationality | Australian |
Thomas Frederick Bathurst, AC (born 17 March 1948), is an Australian judge. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales from 1 June 2011.
Thomas Frederick "Tom" Bathurst was born on St Patrick's Day 1948 in Richmond, Surrey, today part of Greater London. His father, Hugh Moxon Bathurst, had been private secretary to Senator James Fraser, Chifley's Health minister, when his engagement to tennis champion Joan Marcia Hartigan was announced. They married at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney on Saturday, 12 April 1947 before flying to Perth to board the Orion for England where they planned to live for a few years while Joan resumed her tennis career at Wimbledon.
In 1950, Bathurst returned with his parents on the Strathmore after living in Surrey and settled in Sydney. He was educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview and in 1969 graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts. Bathurst graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Laws from the Sydney Law School.
Bathurst was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales in 1972 and joined the Sydney city firm of E. J. (Ernest) Kirby & Co. where his mentor was Ann Plotke.
In 1977 he was called to the NSW Bar, being appointed Queen's Counsel in 1987. His primary areas of practice included appellate work in banking law, commercial law and equity. He was president of the Australian Bar Association from 2008 to 2009, and president of the NSW Bar Association from 2010–11.
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