| Post: | Crown Solicitor of South Australia |
| Insignia: | South Australian Coat of Arms.svg |
| Agency: | Crown Solicitor's Office |
| Department: | Attorney-General's Department |
| Incumbent: | Ingrid Norman |
| Incumbentsince: | November 2021 |
| Agency Type: | Executive agency |
| Parent Agency: | Department of Justice |
| Inaugural: | Charles Mann |
| Formation: | 1837 |
| Website: | Attorney-General's Department (South Australia) |
The Crown Solicitor of South Australia provides legal services to South Australian government Ministers, agencies and departments.
In the early days of the colony the titles of Advocate-General, Crown Solicitor and Public Prosecutor were bestowed together. That changed in 1850 due to the ill-health of then Advocate-General, William Smillie. As a consequence of Smillie's ill-health, the position of Crown Solicitor was given to Charles Mann. Mann briefly held the title of Acting Advocate-General before resigning that position in favour of Richard Hanson. Hanson became South Australia's last Advocate-General and the provinces first Attorney-General in the inaugural Parliament in 1857.
Since 1850, the position of Crown Solicitor has been a public sector employee. The current Crown Solicitor of South Australia, as of 8 November 2021, is Ingrid Norman.
| Crown Solicitor | Time in Office |
|---|---|
| 1837 - 38 | |
| 1838 | |
| Robert Bernard | 1838 - 40 |
| William Smillie | 1840 - 52 |
| William Bartley (Acting) | 1849 - 50 |
| 1850 - 56[1] | |
| William Alfred Wearing QC[2] | 1856 - 67[3] |
| 1867 - 70[4] | |
| Richard Bullock Andrews QC[5] [6] | 1870 - 81[7] |
| 1881 - 89[8] | |
| James Martin Stuart | 1889 - 1905[9] |
| Charles James Dashwood KC[10] [11] | 1905 - 16[12] |
| Frederick William Richards KC[13] | 1916 - 27[14] |
| Albert James Hannan[15] [16] | 1927 - 52[17] |
| Reginald Roderick St Clair Chamberlain KC[18] [19] | 1952 - 59[20] |
| Joseph Reginald Kearnan QC[21] | 1959 - 68 |
| William Andrew Noye Wells QC[22] | 1968 - 69 |
| Ralph Meyrick Hague | 1969 - 70 |
| Leslie Kenneth Gordon | 1970 - 76 |
| Graham Clifton Prior QC[23] | 1976 - 84 |
| 1984 - 89 | |
| Bradley Maxwell Selway QC[24] | 1989 - 96 |
| Michael Walter QC[25] | 1996 - 2004 |
| Simon Stretton SC[26] | 2004 - 10 |
| Gregory Parker | 2010 - 13 |
| Michael Evans QC[27] | 2015 - 16 |
| Judith Hughes | 2016 - 17[28] |
| Michael Wait SC[29] | 2018 - 20 |
| Laura Stein | 2020 - 21[30] |
| Ingrid Norman | 2021 - |