List of first women lawyers and judges in Oceania

This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Australia and Oceania.

It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses).

Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as obtaining a law degree.

See Women in law in the United Kingdom According to Kofe and Taomia (2007), women have served as Island Court magistrates in Tuvalu though their names were not identified.

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Edith Cowan : First female magistrate in Australia (1920)
Patricia Hackett : First female lawyer to take out a practicing lawyer's certificate in Fiji (c. 1930)
Meg Taylor: First female lawyer in Papua New Guinea