LGBTQ Chief Justices

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We have identifies several LGBTQ lawyers who have been appointed Justices or Chief Justice of their country's highest court level. This may be their country's Supreme Court, High Court, Constitutional Court, or other legal institution.

They each have fascinating biographies. For example, do you know:

- the Chief Justice in South Africa who was the leading individual behind that country's Charter of Rights on HIV/Aids and who, himself, is living with AIDS? - the first lesbian member of the Australia High Court? - the first gay member and head of the High Chancery Division of the High Court of England and Wales?

The LGBTQ chief justices hail from Australia, Germany, Guam, South Africa, and Great Britain:

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