Achievements
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Achievements and Awards (alphabetically)
Australian Human Rights Awards
2012 Australian Human Rights Awards – ALSWA ‘Community Organisation’ Award.
2012 Krista McKeeken Young People’s Human Rights Medal
2023 Australian Human Rights Awards – ALSWA ‘Law Award’ Watch video
Children’s Law Awards
2014 Hayley O’Hara (Finalist)
Criminal Law Association Hodge Award
2002 Ben Tyers
2005 Mara Barone
2009 Wendy Hughes
2011 William Yoo
2013 Rosalind Russell-Smith Young Criminal Lawyer of the Year
2018 Kathleen Heath
2019 Georgia Herford
2022 Jasvir Kang
Adjunct Professor Dennis Eggington ALSWA CEO 1996 to 2023 Awards, Various
2002 National Committee of Human Rights Education, Citizen of Humanity
2007 John Curtin Medal Recipient
2007 NAIDOC Perth Outstanding Achievement (Joint Winner)
2009 NAIDOC Perth Scholar of the Year
2010 National NAIDOC Person of the Year
2011 WA Citizen of the Year Indigenous Leadership Award
2022 Queens Birthday Honours – Appointed Member (AM) of the Order of Australia in the General Division
*Adjunct Professor Dennis Eggington Curtin University School of Humanities
Helen ‘Ulli’ Corbett (Former ALSWA Executive Officer)
Disability Services Commission Staff of the Year Award
1998 Inaugural Petra Kelly Peace Prize Award
1998 AIATSIS Overseas Scholarship Award
2016 NAIDOC Scholar of the Year
2019 Helen ‘Ulli’ Corbett Curtin University Honorary Doctor of Laws
Judicial Appointments (former ALSWA Lawyers)
1983 Paul Heaney Magistrates Court
1987 John Toohey QC (dec’d) High Court
1990 Stephen Vose Children’s Court Magistrate
2001 Steve Sharratt Magistrates Court
2005 Leigh Jones – Magistrates Court
2005 Liz Hamilton Magistrates Court
2006 Deen Potter Magistrates Court
2006 Catherine Crawford Magistrates Court
2007 Greg Benn Magistrates Court
2008 Greg Smith Magistrates Court
2009 Brian Devereaux SC (Chief Judge District Court Queensland)
2012 Tom Hall Magistrates Court
2013 Dominic Lennon Victorian Magistrates Court
2014 Nick Lemmon Magistrates Court
2018 Neil Anderson Family Court
2019 Andrew Mackay WA Family Court
2020 David MacLean District Court Judge
2020 Mara Barone SC District Court Judge
2020 Ben Tyers Magistrates Court
2020 Gavin MacLean Magistrates Court
2020 Ben White Magistrates Court
2020 Andrew Matthews Magistrates Court
2021 Cillian Stockdale Magistrates Court
2021 Chris Miocevich District Court Judge
2022 John Kelly SC (County Court Judge Victoria)
2022 Janie Gibbs Magistrates Court
2022 Kelly Thompson Magistrates Court
2023 Wendy Hughes Deputy President of Children’s Court and District Court Judge
2023 Felicity Zempilas District Court Judge
2023 David Woodroffe NT Local Court Judge
2023 Melita Medcalf Magistrates Court
2024 Dominic Brunello Queensland Magistrates Court
2024 Kim Farmer Magistrate Children’s Court
2024 William Yoo Magistrates Court
2024 Melissa McEwan Magistrates Court
2025 Rosheen O’Meagher NSW Magistrates Court
TBC Peter Michaeledes Magistrates Court
TBC Andrew Mackay Family Court
TBC Leigh Jones (dec’d)
Ministerial Appointments
2025 Dr.Tony Buti WA Attorney General, Minister for Commerce, International and Tertiary Education and Multicultural Interests
2022 Tony Buti Minister for Education, Aboriginal Affairs, Citizenship and Multicultural Interests
2010 Tony Buti Member for Armadale
Katrina Dawson Award
2020 Kathleen Heath
Law Matters Radio
First Nations Media Awards (FNMA)
2020 Outstanding Contributor Jodi Hoffmann (Winner)
2020 Best Interview or Oral History (Finalist)
2020 Best News and Current Affairs Program (Finalist)
2020 Best Community Radio Documentary Serve (Finalist)
2021 Excellence in Indigenous Broadcasting (Winner)
2021 Best Feature Radio Documentary or Series (Winner)
2021 Excellence in News & Current Affairs Broadcasting (Joint Winner)
2023 First Nations Media Award, Best News or Current Affairs Story (Winner)
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA)
2021 Excellence in Indigenous Broadcasting (Winner)
2021 Excellence in News and Current Affairs Programming (Winner)
2021 CBAA Awards Best Radio Program, Talks (Finalist)
2023 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia – Excellence in Journalism (Finalist)
Law Society of WA Lawyer of the Year Award
2012 Tammy Solonec (with less than five years experience in WA)
2017 Nicholas Van Hattem
2024 Peter Collins (Finalist)
2024 Chloe Wood (Finalist)
Law Society of WA Emerging Lawyer of the Year
2017 Krista McMeeken
NATSILS Employee of the Year – Trevor Christian Memorial Award
2008 Katrina Carlisle
2010 Jodi Hoffmann
2012 Dennis ‘Sorgi’ Eggington
2017 Murray Stubbs
2018 Kevin Blurton
2019-2020 Monica Collard
2021 Leslie Slater and Rebecca Slater (Joint Winners)
Other Appointments
2022 Rob Owen SC WA Director of Public Prosecutions
2023 Shahleena Musk appointed NT Children’s Commissioner
2024 Alice Barter Assessor Office of Criminal Injuries Compensation
Piddington Society Awards
2020 Michelle Huber – Senior Lawyer of the Year (Joint Winner)
South West Law Society Award
2024 Ella Eberhardt Rising Star Award
WA Attorney General’s Community Service Law Award
2022 Paul Gazia (Finalist)
2024 Peter Collins (Winner) Watch video
WA Women’s Hall of Fame
2017 Tammy Solonec (for International Women’s Day)
Women Lawyers of Western Australia Awards
2011 Tammy Solonec (Junior Woman Lawyer of the Year)
2011 Seranie Gamble (Junior Woman Lawyer of the Year)
2022 Umeya Chaudhuri (Junior Woman Lawyer of the Year)
2022 Clare Brennan (Regional and Remote Woman Lawyer of the Year)
2023 Sally Oliver (Rural, Regional and Remote Woman Lawyer of the Year)
2026 Leneva Polmear (Rural, Regional and Remote Woman Lawyer of the Year)
Justice – A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of WA (Book) by Fiona Skyring
2011 WA Premier’s Prize (Winner)
2011 WA Premier’s Book Awards (State Library of Western Australia Award for WA History) (Winner)
2012 Margaret Medcalf Award (Winner)
2012 Human Rights Awards (Finalist)
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