Peter Cadden Heerey AM QC (16 February 1939 – 1 May 2021) was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1990 to 2009.
He practised as a solicitor in Hobart, before moving to Melbourne to become a barrister in 1967, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1985.
In 2007 he taught a course in Patent and Trade Mark Law at the Monash University campus in Prato, Italy.
Heerey subsequently practised at the Victorian Bar specialising in advice, arbitration and mediation.
On 26 January 2012 Heerey was awarded a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) for his "service to the judiciary through the Federal Court, to the development of legal principle in the areas of intellectual property, trade practices and military law, and to the community".