Hilary Ruth Penfold PSM (born 1953) is an Australian former parliamentary counsel and judge.
[1] She studied the combined Arts / Law degrees course at the Australian National University in Canberra.
[1] She was a joint winner of the Tillyard Prize in 1976 with the theologian, philosopher and poet Kevin Hart.
[1][3][4] Her drafting included legislation for the Tampa affair (the Border Protection Bill, rejected by the Senate), workplace relations reforms (the Workplace Relations Act 1996), and the constitutional amendments which would have been required to have created an Australian republic in 1999.
[1] In 2008, she became the first woman to be a resident judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.