The Honourable Margaret McMurdo AC has led a trailblazing career and inspires many for her commitment to philanthropy whilst maintaining a high profile role in law.

She joins us at Bond University to chat with Mia Behlau, President of the Gold Coast District Law Association about her incredible career path, lessons she has learnt along the way and her hopes for future women working in the legal profession.

Margaret is also Chair of Queensland Community Foundation, a perpetual charitable fund to help Queenslanders in need. Queensland Community Foundation is a $104m charitable fund that has distributed $30m to 350 Queensland charities since 1997.

The ticket price includes a drink on arrival, canapes and a $20 donation to QCF's Gold Coast Community Fund which supports local grass roots charities. This portion of your ticket is tax deductible.

More about Margaret: Having completed her role as Chair of the Royal Commission into Lawyer X, Margaret has recently been appointed to lead the Queensland Taskforce into Coercive Control. Margaret is also chair of both the board of Legal Aid Queensland and patron of Women’s Legal Service, Caxton Legal Service, and LawRight’s Civil Justice Fund.President, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Queensland from 1998 until her resignation on 26 March 2017, Margaret was the first woman to be appointed to such a position in Australia. In 2015, she was Acting Chief Justice of Queensland.

Margaret was a founding committee member of the Women Lawyers’ Association of Queensland and its president in 1980-81. She practised at the Bar from 1989 until 1991 when she became the first woman and the youngest person to be appointed to the District Court of Queensland. In 1993, she additionally held a commission as a Children’s Court judge.

She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Griffith University in 2001 and the Centenary Medal in 2003.

In 2006, she received the Agnes McWhinney award from the Queensland Law Society for outstanding professional contribution by a woman lawyer.

She was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2007 for service to the law and judicial administration in Queensland, particularly in areas of legal education and women’s issues.

In 2009, she received an honorary degree from the Queensland University of Technology and in 2012 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Queensland.

She is a founding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a member of the American Law Institute, an adjunct professor at the T C Beirne school of law, University of Queensland, and the inaugural judge in residence at the law school of Southern Cross University.

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