Dame Stella Katherine Casey DBE (née Wright; 22 May 1924 – 7 July 2000) was a New Zealand campaigner for social issues as well as a prominent member of various national organisations.
She was raised at her family dairy farm in Taranaki[4] and was educated at Opunake District High School, and Sacred Heart College, Christchurch.
[3] In 1948, she married Maurice Eugene Casey, a lawyer and later Judge in the Court of Appeal,[4] who was born in 1923.
[13] In the 1991 New Year Honours, Casey was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community.
[14] Later that year, in the Queen's Birthday Honours, her husband, by then a Court of Appeal judge, was appointed a Knight Bachelor.