Roma Mitchell

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Statue of Dame Roma Mitchell in Adelaide

Dame Roma Mitchell Flinders DBE CVO AC QC (* 2. October 1913 in Adelaide , South Australia , Australia ; † 5. March 2000 ibid) was an Australian judge and politician who not only first Kronanwältin Australia and first female judge in a Supreme Court of Australian state , but was also the first female governor of South Australia .

Life

Roma Mitchell studied law and became the first woman in the 1962 Australian history to Kronanwältin ( Queen's Counsel appointed). In 1965 she was appointed as a judge at the Supreme Court of South Australia and served there until 1983. This made her the first female judge at a Supreme Court of an Australian state.

Mitchell, who described herself as a conservative feminist , was also founding chairwoman of the Australian Commission on Human Rights in 1981. In 1982 she was raised to the nobility as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and from then on carried the suffix "Dame".

She finally became the first female governor of South Australia on February 6, 1991, and held that office for five years until July 21, 1996.

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SURNAME Mitchell, Roma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitchell, Dame Roma Flinders (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian Judge and Governor of South Australia
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide , South Australia , Australia
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2000
Place of death Adelaide , South Australia , Australia