The Solicitor-General of Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 is the state's Second Law Officer, behind the Attorney-General

Attorney-General of Victoria (Australia)

The Attorney-General of Victoria is a ministry of the Government of Victoria with responsibility for the state's courts and tribunals. The Attorney General is a senior minister in the state government and the First Law Officer of the State....

. The holders of this office are appointed by Cabinet

Cabinet (government)

A Cabinet is a body of high ranking government officials, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council, or an Executive Committee.- Overview :...

 on the basis of their legal expertise. Solicitors-General are members of the Executive. Formerly, they were elected members of parliament, but have not been so since the early/mid twentieth century.

The functions of the Victorian Solicitor-General are two-fold. First, s/he acts as Victoria's senior legal adviser. Second, s/he represents the state in significant legal proceedings where Victoria is party, or where the Victorian Attorney-General intervenes in Commonwealth

Government of Australia

The Commonwealth of Australia is a federal constitutional monarchy under a parliamentary democracy. The Commonwealth of Australia was formed in 1901 as a result of an agreement among six self-governing British colonies, which became the six states...

 matters under section 78A of the Judiciary Act 1903.

In 2003, Victoria appointed its first female Solicitor-General, Pamela Tate

Pamela Tate

Pamela Tate SC was the Solicitor-General of Victoria, Australia. In 2003, she became the first woman to be appointed to the position. The Solicitor-General is the second highest law officer of state in Victoria, behind the Attorney-General...

, following an unprecedented public advertising of the position.

Name	Appointed	Concluded
Redmond Barry Redmond Barry Sir Redmond Barry KCMG was an Irish colonial judge in Victoria, Australia.-Early life:Barry was the son of Major-General Henry Green Barry, of Ballyclough, County Cork and his wife Phoebe Drought, daughter of John Armstrong Drought and Letita Head...	1851	1852
Edward Williams Edward Williams (Victorian judge) Sir Edward Eyre Williams was an English-Australian lawyer and judge.Williams was born in 1813 in England, to Burton Williams, a colonist from Trinidad, and his wife Jane; he was the couple's sixth son. In November 1833, after completing his education, Williams was called to the bar of the Inner...	1852	1852
James Croke	1853	1854
Robert Molesworth Robert Molesworth (judge) Sir Robert Molesworth was an Irish-born Australian Chief Justice and Solicitor-General.-Early life:Molesworth was born in Dublin, the son of Hickman Blayney Molesworth, a solicitor; he was descended from Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth. Robert attended Trinity College, Dublin where he...	1854	1854
Thomas Howard Fellows Thomas Howard Fellows Thomas Howard Fellows was an English rower and an Australian politician and judge.-Early life in England:Fellows was born at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, the son of Thomas Fellows, solicitor, and his wife Mary Howard. He was educated at Eton College and then worked with his father...	1854	1858
Henry John Wrixon Henry John Wrixon Sir Henry John Wrixon KCMG was an Australian barrister and politician.-Early life:Wrixon was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Arthur Nicholas Wrixon, later a county court judge in Victoria, Australia, and his wife, Charlotte Matilda...	1870	1871
Howard Spensley Howard Spensley Howard Spensley was an Australian lawyer and politician and a British Liberal politician.Spensley was the son of William Spensley of Edmonton, Middlesex. He was educated at a mercantile academy and emigrated to Australia in 1859. He worked as a journalist in Melbourne for several years...	1871	1872
George Kerferd George Kerferd George Briscoe Kerferd , Australian colonial politician, was the 10th Premier of Victoria.Kerferd was born in Liverpool, the son of G. B. Kerferd, a merchant. Kerferd was educated at the Collegiate Institute, Liverpool, with intentions of studying law; however circumstances led him to enter his...	1872	1874
Frank Dobson	1881	1883
Alfred Deakin Alfred Deakin Alfred Deakin , Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later the second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the 19th century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the...	1884	1890
George Turner	February 1892	January 1893
Isaac Isaacs Isaac Isaacs Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG KC was an Australian judge and politician, was the third Chief Justice of Australia, ninth Governor-General of Australia and the first born in Australia to occupy that post. He is the only person ever to have held both positions of Chief Justice of Australia and...	1893	1893
Agar Wynne Agar Wynne Agar Wynne was an Australian politician.Wynne was born in London, but his family emigrated to Australia when he was a child. He educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and enrolled in an articled clerk's course at the University of Melbourne and was admitted as an attorney in July...	1893	1894
Henry Cuthbert	1897	1897
John Mark Davies John Mark Davies Sir John Mark Davies KCMG was an English-born Australian politician.Born in Halstead, England in 1840, Davies was the fifth eldest of the six boys and six girls of Ebenezer Davies and Ruth Bartlett. Two of the younger boys were educated at Geelong Grammar School...	1899	1900
Agar Wynne	1900	1902
John Mark Davies	1902	1903
William Irvine William Irvine (Australian politician) Sir William Hill Irvine GCMG , Australian politician and judge, was the 21st Premier of Victoria. Irvine was born in Newry in County Down, Ireland, into a Scottish-Presbyterian family...	1903	1903
John Mark Davies	1904	1909
John George Bice	1920	1923
Bill Slater Bill Slater (politician) -Early life:Slater is believed to have been born in 1890. He was born to parents of Irish background. His father left his family when he was four years old. He and two siblings were brought up by his mother in Prahran. After briefly attending Armadale State School Slater left school early to sell...	1924	1924
Bill Slater	1927	1928
Bill Slater	1929	1932
Albert Bussau	1935
Henry Winneke Henry Winneke Sir Henry Arthur Winneke AC, KCMG, KCVO, OBE, KStJ, QC was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Governor of Victoria.- Early life and career :...	1951	1964
Daryl Dawson Daryl Dawson Sir Daryl Michael Dawson, AC, KBE, CB Australian judge and naval officer, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1982 to 1997.-Education:...	1974	1982
Douglas Graham	1992	2002
Pamela Tate Pamela Tate Pamela Tate SC was the Solicitor-General of Victoria, Australia. In 2003, she became the first woman to be appointed to the position. The Solicitor-General is the second highest law officer of state in Victoria, behind the Attorney-General...	July 2003	September 2010
Stephen McLeish	April 2011	Present