The Hon Anna Judith KATZMANN
Judge, Federal Court of Australia: 1.2.2010
Location: Sydney
Anna Judith Katzmann was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in October 2009 with effect from 1 February 2010. At the time of her appointment she was a practising Senior Counsel at the Sydney Bar and the President of the NSW Bar Association.
Justice Katzmann graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1979 with the degrees of BA (Hons) and LLB. She was admitted to the Bar in NSW in December 1979 and practised as a barrister from July 1980 until her appointment. Between 1980 and 1983 she was also employed as an Associate Lecturer, then Lecturer at the NSW Institute of Technology, Sydney (now University of Technology, Sydney). In 1997 she was appointed Senior Counsel and in 2002 she was named by the Women Lawyers Association as a ‘woman lawyer of achievement’.
Justice Katzmann served on the Council of the NSW Bar Association for a continuous period of 15 years during which she held all Executive positions culminating in her election as President in 2007 and 2008.
