Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable Justice |
Julie Anne Dodds-Streeton | |
Office: | Reserve Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria |
Term Start: | 24 November 2015 |
Office2: | Judge of the Federal Court of Australia |
Term Start2: | 1 February 2010 |
Term End2: | 1 April 2014 |
Office3: | Judge of the Victorian Court of Appeal |
Term Start3: | 8 August 2007 |
Term End3: | 1 February 2010 |
Office4: | Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria |
Term Start4: | 23 July 2002 |
Term End4: | 1 February 2010 |
Occupation: | Judge, lawyer |
Education: | University High School, Melbourne University of Melbourne Monash University |
Spouse: | Roger Arnold Streeton |
Nationality: | Australian |
Julie Anne Dodds-Streeton is a Reserve Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. She was formerly a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, having served for four years from February 2010. Prior to that, she was a Justice of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Victoria (appointed August 2007), having previously been a Judge of the Trial Division of that Court from 2002.[1]
Dodds-Streeton attended University High School, Melbourne before studying at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours and then a Bachelor of Laws, also with Honours.[1] She also was awarded a Master of Arts from Monash University.
Dodds-Streeton served her articles with Paveys and was admitted as a solicitor in 1981. She worked as an academic at the Melbourne Law School, where she was a Senior Lecturer in corporate law, real property, intellectual property and equity, before becoming a barrister in 1988, where she read with Joseph Santamaria. practising principally in commercial law. Dodds-Streeton was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2001.[2] Dodds-Streeton was a member of the Insolvency and Corporate Reconstruction Committee of the Law Council of Australia. Dodds-Streeton was one of the counsel assisting the HIH Royal Commission,[3] where she cross-examined Malcolm Turnbull about his role in the sale of FAI Insurance to HIH Insurance.[4]
Dodds-Streeton was appointed to the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 23 July 2002,[5] before being elevated to the Court of Appeal on 8 August 2007.[1] Dodds-Streeton joined fellow justices Marilyn Warren and Rosemary Balmford on the court and Victoria's first all female Full Court sat for the admissions ceremony in August 2002.[6] [7]
On 1 February 2010 Dodds-Streeton was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia,[2] where she served for four years until her retirement on 1 April 2014.[1]
Justice Dodds-Streeton was a member of the Expert Advisory Panel established in June 2015 by the Federal Government to oversee the competitive evaluation process of the Future Submarine Program.[8] In August 2014 she was appointed as a panel member of the Commonwealth Bank's Open Advice Review Program, chaired by former High Court judge, the Honourable Justice Ian Callinan . The panel was a part of a dispute settlement procedure for customers who received financial advice from the Commonwealth Bank received between 2003 and 2012.[9]
Since 2011 she has held the position of President of the Professional Standards Review Board, Anglican Dioceses of Melbourne, Ballarat and Wangaratta, and since 2017, also Bendigo.[10]
She is a current Senior Fellow, Law School, University of Melbourne (since 2013);[8] Member of the Council of Australian Law Deans - Australian Law Schools Standards Committee (since 2015); and Member and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (from 2016).[11]