Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Frank Hollis Rivers Vincent | |
Office: | Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria |
Term Start: | 30 April 1985 |
Term End: | 20 August 2009 |
Birth Date: | 3 October 1937 |
Spouse: | Dawn (née Eustace) |
Education: | Melbourne University |
Profession: | Judge |
Frank Hollis Rivers Vincent (born 3 October 1937) is a retired Australian jurist, who was a Court of Appeals justice at the Supreme Court of Victoria from 2001 to 2009.
He obtaining a Bachelor of Laws from the Melbourne University Law School.[1]
He was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 30 April 1985, and elevated to the Court of Appeals in 2001.[2] From 2001 to 2009, he was also Chancellor of Victoria University in Melbourne.[3] Vincent retired from the Court on 20 August 2009.
In the 2007 Australia Day Honours he was appointed Order of Australia - General Division “for service to the judiciary and the law as a contributor to the reform of penal and parole systems, the rehabilitation of offenders, and Indigenous Australians involved with the criminal justice system; and to education as Chancellor of Victoria University, including efforts to increase educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth.”
Since 2012, Vincent has been a commissioner on the Victorian Law Reform Commission.
He is married to Dawn (née Eustace), and they have two daughters.