Attorney-General of Victoria (Australia)

Attorney-General of Victoria
Incumbent
Robert Clark
since 2 December 2010
Style The Honourable
Appointer Governor of Victoria on the recommendation of the Premier of Victoria
Inaugural holder Sir William Foster Stawell
Formation 1851

The Attorney-General of Victoria is a ministry of the Government of Victoria with responsibility for the state's courts and tribunals. The Attorney General is a senior minister in the state government and the First Law Officer of the State.

The current Attorney-General of Victoria is Robert Clark from the Liberal Party of Australia since December 2010.

List of Attorneys-General of Victoria

  1. Sir William Foster Stawell: 15.7.1851 – 24.2.1857
  2. Thomas Howard Fellows: 25.2.1857 – 10.3.1857
  3. Henry Samuel Chapman: 11.3.1857 – 28.4.1857 / 10.3.1858 – 26.10.1859
  4. Archibald Michie: 29.4.1857–9.3.1858 / 9.4.1870 – 19.6.1871
  5. John D. Wood: 27.10.1859 – 25.11.1860
  6. Richard D. Ireland: 26.11.1860 – 28.7.1861; 14.11.1861 – 26.6.1863
  7. Butler Cole Aspinall: 29.7.1861 – 13.11.1861
  8. George Higginbotham: 27.6.1863 – 5.5.1868
  9. Morgan McDonnell: 6.5.1868 – 10.7.1868; 20.9.1869 – 8.4.1870
  10. George Paton Smith: 11.7.1868 – 19.9.1869
  11. Robert Walsh: 5.7.1871 – 9.6.1872
  12. James W. Stephen: 10.6.1872 – 1.5.1875
  13. George Kerferd: 2.5.1875 – 7.8.1875; 20.10.1875 – 20.5.1877; 5.3.1880 – 2.8.1880; 8.3.1883 – 1.1.1886
  14. Sir Robert Le Poer Trench: 9.8.1875 – 19.10.1875; 21.5.1877 – 26.3.1878
  15. Sir Bryan O’Loghlen: 27.3.1878 – 4.4.1880; 9.7.1881 – 7.3.1883; 23.1.1893 – 26.9.1894
  16. William Kinsey Vale: 3.8.1880 – 8.7.1881
  17. Sir Henry John Wrixon: 18.2.1886 – 4.11.1890
  18. William Shiels: 5.11.1890 – 15.2.1892; 28.4.1892 – 22.1.1893
  19. John G. Duffy: 16.2.1892 – 27.4.1892
  20. Sir Isaac Isaacs: 27.9.1894 – 4.12.1899; 19.11.1900 – 3.6.1901
  21. William Irvine: 5.12.1899 – 18.11.1900; 10.6.1901 – 6.9.1903
  22. Sir Samuel Gillatt: 4.6.1901 – 9.6.1902
  23. Sir John Mark Davies: 7.9.1903 – 7.1.1909
  24. John D. Brown: 8.1.1909 – 8.12.1913
  25. William J. Evans: 9.12.1913 – 21.12.1913
  26. Donald Mackinnon: 22.12.1913 – 8.11.1915
  27. Sir Harry Lawson: 9.11.1915 – 28.11.1917; 21.3.1918 – 20.10.1919
  28. Agar Wynne: 29.11.1917 – 20.3.1918
  29. Arthur Robinson: 21.10.1919 – 10.7.1924
  30. Henry I. Cohen: 11.7.1924 – 17.7.1924
  31. William Sater: 18.7.1924 – 17.11.1924; 20.5.1927 – 21.11.1928; 12.12.1929 – 18.5.1932; 14.9.1943 – 17.9.1943; 21.11.1945 – 19.11.1947; 17.12.1952 – 6.6.1955
  32. Sir Frederick Eggleston: 18.11.1924 – 27.4.1927
  33. John Allan: 28.4.1927 – 19.5.1927
  34. Ian MacFarlan: 26.11.1928 – 11.12.1929; 25.7.1934 – 1.4.1935; 18.9.1943 – 20.11.1945
  35. Sir Robert Menzies: 19.5.1932 – 24.7.1934
  36. Albert L. Bussau: 2.4.1935 – 18.4.1938
  37. Henry S. Bailey: 26.4.1938 – 13.9.1943
  38. Trevor Oldham: 20.11.1947 – 26.6.1950
  39. Thomas Walter Mitchell: 27.6.1950 – 27.10.1952; 31.10.1952 – 16.12.1952
  40. Thomas Hollway: 28.10.1952 – 30.10.1952
  41. William Leggatt: 7.6.1955
  42. Arthur Rylah: 8.6.1955 – 8.5.1967
  43. George O. Reid: 9.5.1967 – 29.5.1973
  44. Vernon Wilcox: 30.5.1973 – 30.3.1976
  45. Alan Hunt: 31.3.1976 – 5.5.1976
  46. Haddon Storey: 6.5.1976 – 7.4.1982
  47. John Cain II: 8.4.1982 – 7.9.1983
  48. Jim Kennan: 8.9.1983 – 13.12.1987; 2.4.1990 – 5.10.1992
  49. Andrew McCutcheon: 14.12.1987 – 1.4.1990
  50. Jan Wade: 6.10.1992 – 19.10.1999
  51. Rob Hulls: 20.10.1999 – 2.12.2010
  52. Robert Clark 2.12.2010 - Present

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