Catherine Holmes
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The Honourable Justice Catherine Holmes is an Australian judge.
She graduated from an Economics degree at the Australian National University in 1976, after which she moved to Brisbane and enrolled in the University of Queensland Law School, studying part-time. Despite graduating from law in the early 1980s, Justice Holmes joined the office of the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy for some time prior to completing the Legal Practice Course at the Queensland Institute of Technology. In 1982, Justice Holmes commenced her employment with the Prosecutions Section of the Deputy Crown Solicitor’s Office, during which she was appointed to the Bar. In 1986, Justice Holmes began practice at the private bar.
During that time the focus of her practice was in criminal and administrative law. She was a member of the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal and in 1998-99 was appointed as Counsel Assisting the Forde Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions.
Justice Holmes was elevated to the bench of the Supreme Court of Queensland in March of 2000 and, from 2005 until her elevation to the Court of Appeal, was the judge constituting the Mental Health Court.
On 26 May 2006 Justice Holmes was appointed to the Queensland Court of Appeal.
