Ken Coghill Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Dr Ken Coghill
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office1:Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Term Start1:25 October 1988
Term End1:26 October 1992
Premier1:John Cain
Predecessor1:Tom Edmunds
Successor1:John Delzoppo
Constituency Am2:Werribee
Assembly2:Victorian Legislative
Term Start2:5 May 1979
Term End2:30 March 1996
Predecessor2:Neville Hudson
Successor2:Mary Gillett
Birth Date:1944 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Mansfield, Victoria, Australia
Birthname:Kenneth Alistair Coghill
Spouse:Judith Wakeman (m.1969; div.2007)
Julia Thornton (m.2008)
Children:One
Party:Labor

Kenneth Alistair Coghill (born 10 November 1944 in Mansfield, Victoria) is a former Australian politician.

Life and career

Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, Coghill studied Veterinary Science at the University of Melbourne and worked as a veterinarian before serving on the Wodonga City Council. He entered the Victorian Legislative Assembly as a Labor Party Member for Werribee in the 1979 State elections, and served as the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1992.

After retiring from Parliament in 1995, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. He is currently an associate professor at Monash University.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Associate Professor the Honourable Dr Ken Coghill . 20 April 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140420042832/http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/mgt/research/governance/parliamentary-careers/ken-coghill.html . 20 April 2014 .