Louise Taylor is a judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, appointed on 26 July 2023 and due to be sworn in during August 2023.
She is the first Aboriginal person to be appointed as a judicial officer in the Australian Capital Territory, and the first Indigenous woman to become a Supreme Court judge in Australia.
[4] Between 2012[6] and 2014,[7] Taylor worked on the inquiry into the conviction of David Eastman, leading to the finding that he had been wrongly convicted of the murder Colin Winchester, assistant commission in the Australian Federal Police, for which he was imprisoned for nearly 20 years before being acquitted.
[8] In 2014, Taylor was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Legal Aid ACT.
[13] Taylor served as Chair of the Women's Legal Centre ACT[2][9][14] for 10 years.