Cheryl Sarah Bart AO

Order of Australia

The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...

 is an Australian lawyer and company director.

Bart was educated at Moriah College

Moriah College

Moriah War Memorial College is an independent, Modern Orthodox Jewish, co-educational, day school in Queens Park, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 in Sydney

Sydney

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 and graduated from the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

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 with degrees in commerce (1984) and law (1986). She began her career as a banking and finance lawyer at Mallesons Stephen Jaques

Mallesons Stephen Jaques

Mallesons Stephen Jaques is a commercial law firm that operates in the Asia-Pacific region. It is one of the 30 largest law firms in Australia, and is widely regarded as one of the top commercial law firms in Australia.-Offices:...

, and from 1990 to 1995, was national business development director of the firm.

Bart has been the chairperson of the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation, ANZ Trustees Limited, the South Australian Film Corporation

South Australian Film Corporation

South Australian Film Corporation is a South Australian Government statutory corporation established in 1972. Former State Premier Don Dunstan played an instrumental role in the foundation of the Corporation and its early film production activities....

, the Adelaide Film Festival

Adelaide Film Festival

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, and the South Australian Environmental Protection Authority. She is also serves as a non-executive director on numerous company boards including: Spark Infrastructure Limited, ETSA Utitilies, Shaw of Australia, Audio pixels Limited, and the Buckland Foundation.

On 3 June 2010, she commenced a five-year term on the Board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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.

Family

Cheryl Bart is married to Fred Bart, also a company director, and has two children. On 23 May 2008, Bart and her 23-year-old daughter Nikki became the first mother-daughter team to reach the summit of Mount Everest

Mount Everest

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. The scaling of Everest also saw them complete the "Seven Summits

Seven Summits

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" challenge: climbing the highest mountains in each continent. Her father, Emeric Klinghoffer, was a Hungarian concentration camp survivor, and her mother was Polish.