Sir Joseph Aloysius Sheehy KBE (15 April 1900 – 22 September 1971) was an Australian jurist and Senior Puisne Judge of the Queensland Supreme Court.

[11] Sheehy's brother-in-law, Lieutenant Charles Groves[12] (one of the legendary wartime "Rats of Tobruk"), also practised law in Queensland, being admitted as a barrister and solicitor and co-founding the law firm of Groves and Clark Solicitors,[13] before the outbreak of the Second World War in which he was ultimately killed in the Battle of Milne Bay, New Guinea.

During his tenure as a Supreme Court Justice, in February 1953 the Queensland Premier appointed Sheehy to chair the Valuations Board of Review, set up to assess 140,000 land valuations across 39 towns and shires including the capital of Brisbane,[19][20] and from 1954 to 1956 Sheehy also conducted the Royal Commission into the Government Coal Mine Disaster at Collinsville.

Sheehy was again appointed Administrator of Queensland in 1969 when Governor Sir Alan Mansfield was absent from Australia for a lengthy period.

The Chief Justice noted in his eulogy that as well as his outstanding skill and rigour as a jurist, Sheehy's "kindness, urbanity and readiness to help others made him much loved.

"[36][37] The 50-vehicle official funeral cortège and motorcade, led by a procession of mounted police, passed through a final honour guard of 1,000 students from his old school of Gregory Terrace, after winding through the city streets of Brisbane where people paused to pay their last respects to one of the most admired and beloved jurists in the State's history.