Office: | Judge of the Supreme Court |
Term Start: | 1 January 1961 |
Term End: | 14 August 1968 |
Nominator: | Government of Ireland |
Appointer: | Seán T. O'Kelly |
Office1: | Judge of the High Court |
Term Start1: | 11 October 1942 |
Term End1: | 30 December 1960 |
Nominator1: | Government of Ireland |
Appointer1: | Seán T. O'Kelly |
Order2: | 7th |
Office2: | Attorney General of Ireland |
Taoiseach2: | Éamon de Valera |
Term Start2: | 2 March 1940 |
Term End2: | 10 October 1942 |
Predecessor2: | Patrick Lynch |
Successor2: | Kevin Dixon |
Birth Date: | 17 November 1901 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Death Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Nationality: | Irish |
Party: | Fianna Fáil |
Children: | 3 |
Education: | Blackrock College |
Kevin O'Hanrahan Haugh (17 November 1901 – 5 April 1969) was an Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1961 to 1968, a Judge of the High Court from 1942 to 1960 and Attorney General of Ireland from 1940 to 1942.
He was born in Dublin in 1901. He was educated at Blackrock College and University College Dublin. He was called to the Bar in 1925 and he became Senior Counsel 1938. He was appointed as the Attorney General of Ireland in 1940, and served in the role until 1942, when he was appointed a High Court judge. He was for many years the Probate Judge and an acknowledged authority on succession law. He became a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1961. He retired in 1968 and died the following year.[1]
His son, also Kevin (1944–2009) followed his father's path to the Bar and the High Court; unlike his father, he was also a judge of the Circuit Court. He was an immensely popular judge whose career was cut short by his early death in 2009.