David Thomas is a retired judge of the Federal Court of Australia and a former justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland in the Trial Division.
[1] He served as the president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal from the date of his appointment to the Federal Court until 31 January 2022.
[2] Prior to his appointment to the AAT he was the president of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
[3] Thomas was previously a senior partner with Minter Ellison Lawyers.
He is also the president of The Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland, deputy chair of Queensland Ballet, a director of The Society of The Sacred Advent Schools (the trustee of St Margaret's Anglican Girls' School and St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School) and an adjunct professor at Murdoch University.