Roma Mitchell
Australian judge
Died when: 86 years 155 days (1037 months)Star Sign: Libra
Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC (2 October 1913 – 5 March 2000) was an Australian lawyer, judge and state governor.She was the first woman to hold a number of positions in Australia – the country's first woman judge, 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.
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