Honorific-Prefix: | Major General The Honourable |
Richard Tracey | |
Office: | Judge of the Federal Court of Australia |
Term Start: | 24 July 2006 |
Term End: | 17 August 2018 |
Office2: | 6th Judge Advocate General |
Term Start2: | 26 September 2007 |
Term End2: | 29 July 2014 |
Predecessor2: | Len Roberts-Smith |
Successor2: | Michael Slattery |
Profession: | Judge, barrister |
Education: | Melbourne High School Newman College (University of Melbourne) University of Illinois |
Birth Name: | Richard Ross Sinclair Tracey |
Birth Date: | 1948 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Death Place: | California, United States |
Serviceyears: | 1975–2014 |
Mawards: | Member of the Order of Australia Reserve Force Decoration |
Richard Ross Sinclair Tracey (18 August 1948 – 11 October 2019) was an Australian military and civil judge and barrister, who was Judge Advocate General of the Australian Defence Force from 2007 to 2014, and a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 2006 to 2018. Following his retirement from the Federal Court, Tracey was appointed as a commissioner of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, however he died of cancer before the commission provided its interim report.[1]
In the 2014 Australia Day Honours Tracey was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "exceptional service in the field of military law, as a consultant for the Director of Army Legal Services, and as Judge Advocate General of the Australian Defence Force".[2]