Edward Woodward (judge), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian judge
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Place of Birth: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
About Edward Woodward (judge)
- Sir Albert Edward Woodward (6 August 1928 – 15 April 2010) was an Australian jurist. Woodward was born in Ballarat in to Eric Woodward (later as Lieutenant General Sir Eric Woodward, a Governor of New South Wales) and Amy Freame Weller.
- After completing both his primary and secondary education at Melbourne Grammar School, Woodward continued his studies at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated with a Master of Laws.
- He was admitted to the bar in 1951 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1965.
- During his career, he sat on several boards and 17 Royal Commissions, on four of which he was the Chairman.
- The most famous of these was the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission in 1973–74.
- He was President of the Trade Practices Tribunal 1974–76 and a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia 1977–90. As Director-General of Security between 1976 and 1981, he headed the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. He was a member of Camberwell Grammar School Council between 1972 and 1987 and Chairman in 1987.
- He was made a Life Governor of the school in 2002. In 1990 he succeeded Sir Roy Douglas Wright as Chancellor of his alma mater, the University of Melbourne, a post he held until 2001. He died at 81 years old.
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