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Katherine Louise Bourke〔http://www.vicbar.com.au/e.5.asp The Victorian Bar website (Essoign Club page), accessed 20 September 2009〕 is an Australian lawyer and judge. She has been a Judge of the County Court of Victoria since December 2007. ==Biography== Judge Bourke was born in Melbourne on 5 July 1961. She is one of five children, all girls, of Dr John Bourke AM.〔http://www.vicbar.com.au/GetFile.ashx?file=BarCouncilChairFiles%2FBar+Kathy+Bourke+(2).pdf Address on the occasion of the swearing in of and welcome to Her Honour Judge Katherine Bourke in the County Court of Victoria on Tuesday 18 December 2007 by Peter Riordan SC, Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council〕 Bourke was educated by the Presentation Sisters, first at O'Neill College and then at Presentation Convent. She was dux of her school in her final year, and finished in the top hundred students in the state. She subsequently studied Arts and Laws at the University of Melbourne, graduating B.A and LL.B. She later completed a Master of Laws degree from UM; her thesis was ''Crimes Compensation.'' While in secondary school Bourke played cello in the school orchestra and in the State Catholic Schools orchestra. At UM she played competitive soccer, and was a foundation member of the University Women's Soccer Club at UM. As one result of her soccer days, she later underwent extensive knee reconstructive surgery. Bourke completed her Articles of Clerkship at Ford & Co, solicitors (later Nevett Ford) and subsequently worked for that firm as a solicitor and as an associate partner. She was called to the Victorian Bar in 1989, and practiced as a barrister for 18 years, principally in the common law jurisdictions of the Victorian courts, before being appointed to bench of the County Court of Victoria (2007) by the Attorney-General of Victoria, Rob Hulls. Bourke was appointed Chair of the Bookmakers and Bookmakers' Clerks Registration Committee in 2000. She also served on the Victorian Bar Council from 2000 to 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katherine Bourke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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