Brigitte Markovic

She has been a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, based in Sydney, since 2015.

[1] Markovic was born in Sydney, the daughter of Holocaust survivors.

She was based in Canberra from 1997 to 2000, where she established Clayton Utz's federal government practice.

She was made managing partner heading the firm's Litigation and Dispute Resolution group in 2010.

Her areas of practise as a solicitor included corporations, insolvency, commercial and administrative law, and her cases included representing the Australian Securities & Investments Commission in litigation over the HIH Insurance collapse and their civil prosecution of James Hardie.