Tags: Judge.

Sir Owen Dixon OM GCMG KC (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1972) was an Australian judge and diplomat who served as the sixth Chief Justice of Australia. A justice of the High Court for thirty-five years Dixon was one of the leading jurists in the English-speaking world and is widely regarded as Australia’s greatest ever jurist.

Dixon_01.jpg
active years end date
1952-04-18, 1964-04-13
active years start date
1929-02-04, 1952-04-18
appointer
William McKell
birth date
1886-04-28
birth place
Australia, Victoria (Australia), Hawthorn Victoria
death date
1972-07-07
death place
Australia, Melbourne
office
Justice of the High Court of Australia
order in office
6th, Chief Justice of Australia
successor
Garfield Barwick, Alan Taylor (judge)

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Owen Dixon"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.