List of UNSW Law alumni

Federal Court judges

• Annabelle Bennett
• Anna Katzmann
• Brigitte Markovic
• John Nicholas

NSW Supreme Court judges^[1]

• Natalie Adams (LLM) ^[2]
• Elizabeth Fullerton
• Megan Latham
• Lucy McCallum (LLB 1986)
• Tony Meagher (Court of Appeal)
• Stephen Rothman

NSW District Court judges

• Audrey Balla
• Bob Bellear, Australia's first Indigenous judge (LLB 1978)
• Chris Craigie SC, former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions^[3]
• Andrew Haesler
• Dina Yehia

Family Court judges

• Ann Ainslie-Wallace, Family Court (since 2010), NSW District Court (1997-2010) (LLB 1978)
• Stewart Austin
• Colin Forrest
• Matthew Myers, Commonwealth's first Indigenous judicial officer^[4]
• Janine Stevenson

Other judges

• Pat O'Shane, Magistrate; former Chancellor of the University of New England; Australia's first Aboriginal barrister (LLB 1976)
• Aruna Ranasinghe, Judge of the High Court of Sri Lanka^[5]
• Barnabas Wah Fung, former Chief District Judge of Hong Kong, current Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong
• David Wong, Judge of the Court of Appeal, Federal Court of Malaysia (LLB 1977)

Attorneys-General

• Brad Hazzard, former NSW Attorney-General and current Member of Parliament
• Robert McClelland, former Commonwealth Attorney-General (LLB 1981)
• Gabrielle Upton, current NSW Attorney-General and Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly for Vaucluse

Politics and Government

• Elizabeth Broderick, former Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner
• Andrew Cheng, Councillor of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
• Jason Clare, Member of the House of Representatives for Blaxland, Shadow Minister for Communications
• David Coleman, Member of the House of Representatives for Banks
• Michael Forshaw, Senator
• Peter Garrett, musician and politician, former Member of the House of Representatives for Kingsford Smith, former Commonwealth Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (LLB 1977)
• Jennie Granger PSM, Director General Enforcement & Compliance, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
• Damien Miller, Australian Ambassador to Denmark
• Melissa Parke, United Nations senior lawyer, former member of the House of Representatives for Fremantle
• Marise Payne, Senator and first female Minister for Defence
• Eleni Petinos, Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly for the district of Miranda (LLB 2011)^[6]
• Robynne Quiggin, CEO, Australian Indigenous Governance Institute
• Eric Roozendaal, former Treasurer of New South Wales and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council

Business and Law

• Richard Alcock, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (LLB 1980)
• Chris Chapman, inaugural Chair and CEO, Australian Communications and Media Authority^[7] (LLB 1977)
• Satyajit Das, author, international expert and consultant on financial derivatives, risk management and capital markets
• Michael Del Nin, Co-CEO, Central European Media Enterprises
• Stuart Fuller, Global Managing Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
• David Gonski, prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW
• Nicholas Gray, CEO, The Australian
• Matthew Grounds, CEO, UBS Australasia
• Stuart Littlemore QC, barrister, writer and original host of ABC's Media Watch
• Nicholas Moore, Managing Director and CEO, Macquarie Group
• Michael Rose, former Chief Executive Partner, Allens (law firm)^[8]
• Jillian Segal AM, Non-Executive Director, NAB; Deputy Chancellor of UNSW^[9]
• Joanna Shulman, CEO, Redfern Legal Centre
• Andrew Trahair, Partner and Co-Head of Global Banking Practice, Allen & Overy (UK)
• Shemara Wikramanayake, Director, Macquarie Funds Group

Others

• Monica Attard, award-winning Australian journalist and former host of ABC's Media Watch
• Larissa Behrendt, Aboriginal writer
• Matthew Reilly, Best-selling Author
• Emile Sherman, Film Producer
• Rebel Wilson, Comedian and Actress