Xavier Connor

{{Short description|Australian judge (1917 - 2005)}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Xavier Connor | birth_name = Francis Xavier Connor | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1917|12|12}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2005|12|27|1917|12|12}} | occupation = Judge, jurist | office = Judge of the Federal Court of Australia | term_start = 1977 | term_end = 1982 }} Xavier Connor Known professionally as '''Xavier Connor''', he was Chair of the Victorian Bar Council from 1967 to 1969.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ALRCRefJl/2005/34.html|title=Weisbrot, David --- "Justice Xavier Connor Ao" [2005] ALRCRefJl 34; (2005) 87 Australian Law Reform Commission Reform Journal 68|website=classic.austlii.edu.au|access-date=2018-11-01}}</ref> He was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory in 1972 and was made a foundation judge of the Federal Court of Australia in 1977, serving on this court until 1982.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.alrc.gov.au/about/commissioners/past-presidents/justice-xavier-connor-ao|title=Hon Xavier Connor AO QC|date=2010-06-02|website=www.alrc.gov.au|language=en|access-date=2018-11-01|archive-date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925172700/http://www.alrc.gov.au/about/commissioners/past-presidents/justice-xavier-connor-ao|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Justice Connor served as President of the Australian Law Reform Commission from 1985 to 1987, President of the Courts-Martial Appeal Tribunal (1979), Chairman of the Parole Board of the ACT (1978-1985), Head of the Board of Inquiry into Casinos in Victoria (1982) and Chairman of the Committee of Review of the Special Broadcasting Service (1994).<ref name=":0" />

Connor was interviewed in 1995 about his career. The recording can be found in the National Library of Australia. <ref>Connor, X.; Griffin, J. (interviewer). (1995). [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/2335229 ''<nowiki>Xavier Connor interviewed by James Griffin in the Law in Australian society oral history project [sound recording]</nowiki>''], National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 May 2026.</ref>

==See also== * Judiciary of Australia * Victorian Bar

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