Roma Mitchell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roma Mitchell

Australian judge

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1913

Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Date of Death: 05-Mar-2000

Profession: judge, lawyer, chancellor, governor, academic

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, (2 October 1913 – 5 March 2000) was an Australian lawyer, judge and state governor.
Mitchell was the first woman to hold a number of positions in Australia – she was the country's first woman judge, and the first woman to be a Queen's Counsel, a chancellor of an Australian university and the Governor of an Australian state. Mitchell was considered to be a pioneer of the Australian women's rights movement.
Her grandfather, Samuel James Mitchell, was the first Chief Justice of the Northern Territory.