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Margaret O'Donnell
Board member since November 2004 Margaret O'Donnell was appointed chairperson in September 2005. Ms O'Donnell is a former Director-General of three Queensland Government Departments: Equity and Fair Trading, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and Development and Arts. She was Victoria's first Legal Ombudsman and established and ran the Alternative Dispute Resolution Division in the Department of Attorney-General and Justice in Queensland. Ms O'Donnell is a freelance consultant and contributes her expertise to a number of other boards. |
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Peter Callaghan SC
Board member since March 2008 Peter Callaghan SC is an experienced legal practitioner specialising in criminal law. Mr Callaghan was admitted as a barrister in 1986 and throughout his legal career has been an advocate passionately committed to ensuring access to the legal system for all people. He spent 10 years serving as a prosecutor at a state and federal level, before joining the private Bar in 1995. He was appointed senior counsel in 2004 and is a current member of the Bar Association of Queensland's Criminal Law Committee and Bar Council. |
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Iyla Davies
Board member since June 2005 Iyla Davies is a Senior Lecturer in the Law Faculty at QUT. She coordinates the undergraduate family law program and the postgraduate mediation program. She is also currently the National President of Relationships Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She has previously served on community service committees including the Specialist Accreditation Board of the Queensland Law Society, Lawyers Engaged in Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Australasian Law Teachers Association. |
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Dan Toombs
Board member since November 2007
Dan Toombs is the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Solicitor of The Advocacy & Support Centre (TASC), a not for profit organisation dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights of the most marginalised and vulnerable in Queensland. TASC has offices in Toowoomba, Ipswich and Warwick and provides direct legal and advocacy services to south-west Queensland. Dan was awarded the 2006 Queensland Disability Award, Highly Commended 2006 National Human Rights Law Award and was further awarded a 2007 Winston Churchill Fellowship. |
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Allan Welsh
Board member since July 2008 Allan Welsh has led major projects in the public and private sectors for the past 20 years, with extensive experience in managing capital infrastructure, information and business system projects and events.
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Jenny Hardy
Legal Aid Queensland CEO
Jenny Hardy has built a career around improving people's access to legal services and has extensive experience within the legal aid sector within the Northern Territory and at a national level. She was the deputy director of the Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission for four years and spent five years advising National Legal Aid on policy and law reform issues as its executive officer. In particular, she has helped improve Indigenous people's experiences with the justice system through her various roles with the North Australian Aboriginal Legal Service and the National Aboriginal Youth Law Centre. Awarded the Law Council of Australia's Young Australian Lawyer of the Year in 1993, Ms Hardy has experience in criminal, family and civil law and has worked in defense, prosecution and policy roles. |
Last updated 06 March 2009