{{Short description|Australian judge}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honorable Chief Justice | name = Peter Quinlan | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|06|16|df=y}}<ref name=SupremeCourt>{{cite web|url=https://www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au/T/the_hon_chief_justice_peter_damien_quinlan.aspx|title=The Hon Chief Justice Peter Damien Quinlan|publisher=Supreme Court of Western Australia|date=22 August 2018|access-date=4 March 2019}}</ref> | honorific_suffix = | order = 14th | office = Chief Justice of Western Australia | term_start = 13 August 2018<ref name=Yahoo7/><ref name=FinancialReview/> | predecessor = Wayne Martin | office2 = Solicitor-General of Western Australia | predecessor2 = Grant Donaldson<ref name=SolicitorGeneralAnnouncement/> | term_start2 = 1 July 2016 | term_end2 = 10 October 2018 | office3 = Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia | predecessor3 = Wayne Martin | term_start3 = 27 November 2019 | children = 5 }}
'''Peter Damien Quinlan''' (born 16 June 1970) is the Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia. He was sworn in on 27 November 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lieutenant Governor |url=https://govhouse.wa.gov.au/the-governor/lieutenant-governor/ |website=Government House Western Australia |access-date=22 October 2023}}</ref> He is also the Chief Justice of Western Australia. His appointment was announced on 1 August 2018,<ref name=West_20180801>{{cite news|url=https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/new-court-chiefs-aim-is-justice-for-all-ng-b88913128z|title=New court chief’s aim is justice for all|publisher=The West Australian|author=Tim Clarke|date=2018-08-01|access-date=2018-08-01}}</ref> and took effect on 13 August.<ref name=Yahoo7>{{cite news|url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/chief-justice-named-025856054--spt.html|title=Peter Quinlan named new WA chief justice|publisher=Yahoo!7|date=2018-08-01|access-date=2018-08-05}}</ref><ref name=FinancialReview>{{cite web|url=https://www.afr.com/business/legal/no-justice-with-news-of-chief-justice-peter-quinlan-20180801-h13ffb|title=No justice with news of chief justice Peter Quinlan|publisher=The Australian Financial Review|date=2018-08-02|access-date=2018-08-05|author=Michael Pelly}}</ref> He was the Solicitor-General of Western Australia from 2016 to 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/biglaw/23750-wa-names-new-chief-justice|title=Western Australia Attorney-General John Quigley has named the next top judge for Australia’s Wildflower State|publisher=Lawyers Weekly|author=Jerome Doraisamy|date=2018-08-01|access-date=2018-08-01}}</ref>
Quinlan attended John XXIII College<ref name=SupremeCourt/><ref name=WelcomeVideo/>{{rp|10:42/10:46}} before studied commerce and law at the University of Western Australia; he won the HCF Keall Prize for best final year student. He worked in the Crown Solicitor's Office from 1993 to 1995 as an assistant to the Solicitor General, then again from 1996 working in constitutional and administrative law.<ref name=SolicitorGeneralAnnouncement>{{cite web|url=https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Barnett/2016/06/New-Solicitor-General-appointed.aspx|title=New Solicitor-General appointed|publisher=Government of Western Australia|date=2016-06-22|access-date=2018-08-05|archive-date=5 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805083103/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Barnett/2016/06/New-Solicitor-General-appointed.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2001, Quinlan commenced practising as a barrister. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2010, and was president of the WA Bar Association from 2012 to 2015. He was appointed as Solicitor-General of Western Australia on 1 July 2016.<ref name=SolicitorGeneralAnnouncement/> He has also served as director of the Law Council of Australia, and on the board of governors for the University of Notre Dame.<ref name=SolicitorGeneralAnnouncement/><ref name=LawSociety>{{cite web|url=https://www.lawsocietywa.asn.au/news/the-law-society-of-western-australia-congratulates-peter-quinlan-sc-on-his-appointment-as-the-14th-chief-justice-of-western-australia/|title=The Law Society of Western Australia congratulates Peter Quinlan SC on his appointment as the 14th Chief Justice of Western Australia|publisher=The Law Society of Western Australia|date=2018-08-01|access-date=2018-08-05}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Quinlan is married with five children.<ref name=West_20180801/>
He is the great great grandson of a convict transportee, Daniel Connor.<ref name=WelcomeVideo>{{cite AV media|date=2018-08-21|title=Welcome Ceremony for the Hon Justice Peter Quinlan, Chief Justice of Western Australia|url=https://www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au/_files/Ceremonies/Quinlan%20CJ%20Welcome%2020082018.avi|access-date=2018-08-22|format=AVI|publisher=Supreme Court of Western Australia}}</ref>{{rp|09:54/10:20}} <!-- Possibly also descendant (grandson?) of Timothy Quinlan, who was the son of Michael Quinlan, blacksmith, both arrived in WA in 1863. Ref: WelcomeVideo at 10:20/10:35, and http://www.friendsofbattyelibrary.org.au/the-bicentennial-dictionary-of-western-australians.html, Q, p2557. -->
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links==
* [https://www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au/T/the_hon_chief_justice_peter_damien_quinlan.aspx The Hon Chief Justice Peter Damien Quinlan], Supreme Court of Western Australia website
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