If you are unsure, 'Sir', 'Madam' or 'Judge' are all acceptable. Formal social occasions. On formal social occasions a range of forms of address is. used when speaking to members of courts and tribunals.
In written form they should be referred to as “The Honourable Justice …” and any correspondence should be addressed to Dear Judge – unless they're a Chief Justice in which case it would be Dear Chief Justice.
Addressing letters and envelopes
The Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 s6(6) prescribes the form for addressing Federal Court judges as 'The Honourable Justice …………'.
It was not until 1965 that the first woman was appointed to an Australian judicial position. These pioneering Australians have been described as members of the FW2 club or First Woman to club. The list includes positions to which no woman has been appointed as of March 2022.
The United States Supreme Court is the highest level of the judiciary branch. Out of 115 justices that have served on the court, only six have been women. Four are currently serving: Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
In Australia, approximately 33% of judicial officers are women and that percentage applies across almost all jurisdictions (State and federal) and at all levels in the judicial hierarchy, although it tends to be lower in the higher courts.
The plural form of judge is judges.
The first female Justice was Mary Gaudron who was a Justice from 1987 to 2003. Susan Crennan was a Justice from 2005 to 2015, and Virginia Bell from 2009 to 2021. The current Chief Justice of Australia Susan Kiefel is the first woman to have been appointed to the position.
Melbourne-based justice Debra Mortimer will become the Federal Court of Australia's first female chief justice, following the mandatory retirement of her predecessor, Chief Justice James Allsop.
Judges and judicial registrars of the Family Court of Australia wear a black silk gown, a bar jacket with either bands or a jabot and a bench wig. On formal occasions, judges wear full-bottomed wigs. Judges of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia wear a plain black gown in court without a wig.
umpire, umpie (Australian, slang), arbiter, arbitrator, moderator.
Judges are addressed in court as 'Your Honour', and are referred to in writing as 'Justice', eg, 'Justice Smith'. For formal written correspondence they would be addressed as 'The Honourable Justice Smith'.
Judges sit in the District Court and other higher courts. Judges primarily hear more complex legal matters, in both the criminal and civil context. Magistrates operate in the Magistrates Court. Magistrates tend to deal with shorter, less legally complex criminal matters.
Address the Magistrate as “Your Honour”, or “Sir” or “Madam”. Address the Court Registrar as “Registrar”. Address others only by their titles and surnames, including lawyers, witnesses and Court staff.
The name Judge is primarily a male name of English origin that means Decision Maker/public Official.
If you are unsure, 'Sir' or 'Madam' or 'Judge' are all acceptable. 'Judge' is not generally used for magistrates and tribunal members. If in doubt you can always ask them.
When speaking to a Supreme Court judge or associate judge, address them as 'Your Honour'. If you are in court and called to address the judge, you should stand when you are spoken to or when speaking to them.
The Chief Justice is the senior judge of the Court and is responsible for managing the business of the Court. Judges of the Court are appointed by the Governor-General by commission and may not be removed except by the Governor-General on an address from both Houses of Parliament in the same session.
Applying for an associateship with a Justice of the High Court of Australia. Salary $79,657 plus 15.4% Superannuation. To apply for an associateship with a particular Justice, an applicant should write directly to the Justice with whom s/he would like to work.
The ceremony comes more than 35 years after Mary Gaudron was sworn in as Australia's first female High Court Judge.
In 1980, at the relatively young age of 39, Ms Mathews became NSW's first female judge when she was appointed to the District Court of NSW.
Both words can function as nouns, but female, unlike woman, can also be an adjective. Adjectives are stretchable, happily taking "more" or "less": You can say "more female," but you cannot say "more woman"; you would have to say "more womanly." In modifying another noun, woman is what the O.E.D.
The plural of wife is wives.