Kerri Judd

Kerri Judd KC (born 1966) is an Australian lawyer who has been a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria since 17 September 2024.

Judd attended Croydon Secondary College, a public high school from which no student had previously been accepted to study law.

[4][5] She appeared in the case of Akon Guode, a mother who drove her four children into a lake, as well as the rape and murder of Bega schoolgirls Lauren Barry and Nichole Collins.

[5] In March 2018, it was announced that Judd would become Victoria's next Director of Public Prosecutions after John Champion was appointed to the Supreme Court.

After a nationwide suppression order was imposed during the case, Judd charged over sixty journalists, publishers and broadcasters, including the Herald Sun, The Age, News Corp, Nine Network and the ABC with contempt of court.