Interview with Justice Rosemary Balmford, judge of the Victorian County Court since 1993, first woman judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1996 / interviewer, Ruth Campbell.

1995

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Balmford, Rosemary.

Women judges -- Australia.

Balmford speaks of a happy family life where lawyers were common in her family, the stimulation of Melbourne's Girls Grammar, her enrolment in law at Melbourne University, her involvement in the Student Christian Movement and the Debating Society, articled with Whiting and Byrne, how in 1956 she went to London to work on a Master of Laws at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies but did not finish, in 1957 she worked as a solicitor and lectured part-time, took a job full-time tutor in 1962 leaving home

Compact discs.

Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.

Recorded on Nov. 14 to Dec. 6, 1995 in Melbourne.

Oral History Collection.

4 sound discs (ca. 180 min.) : digital + transcript (180 p.)