James Cook University Alumni Appointed as First Indigenous Judge
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James Cook University Alumni Appointed as First Indigenous Judge
Date : 28 May 2022
Location : Australia
Lincoln Crowley, alumni of James Cook University, has been appointed as the first judge of Australia’s Ideginious Supreme Court. He completed his Bachelor of Law from James Cook University in 1996. After that, he started practising as a solicitor and solicitor advocate with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service. He was appointed to the bar in 2003 in Sydney. In 2007, Crowley moved to Queensland and served as a Principal Crown Prosecutor for the Queensland Office of the Director of Public Prosecutors. He became the first Indigenous Queens Counsel to graduate from James Cook University. From 2009, he has been a member of the Queensland Bar and resumed to specialise at the private bar, both in defence and prosecution and in other associated areas of laws.
