The Women in the Law in Queensland Exhibition

The Honourable Justice Susan Kiefel left school at 15 and in 1971 commenced employment with Messrs Fitzgerald, Moynihan and Mack as a secretary. By 1973, Justice Kiefel had obtained a position as a legal clerk at Messrs Cannan and Peterson solicitors, and soon after completed both her Senior examination and Bar Board course, the latter with honours. Justice Kiefel came to the bar in 1975, and nine years later commenced studies at Wolfson College, where she obtained the degree of Master of Laws and was awarded the C.J. Hamson prize in Comparative Law. In 1987, Justice Kiefel took silk and in May of 1993 was appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland. But only one year passed before she was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in October of 1994.