1897	First female law student, Grata Flos Matilda Greig commenced at the University of Melbourne
1903	Women’s Disabilities Removal Act No. 1837 of 1903, 6 April 2003 “An act to remove some anomalies in the law relating to women” to enable women to be admitted to practise as legal practitioners
1904	Flos Greig first woman admitted to practice
1923	Joan Rosanove first woman admitted to Victorian Bar (retired 1926 and resigned 1949)
1965	Joan Rosanove first woman appointed Queen’s Counsel (Victoria)
1968	Paulette Parkinson tenth woman to sign Bar Roll
1976	Justice Margaret (Peg) Lusink first Victorian woman appointed to Family Court of Australia after signing Bar Roll in 1975.
1983	Lynnette Schiftan (nee Opas) second Victorian woman to take silk
1984	Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 1984 establishes Equal Opportunity Commission Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act 1984
1985	Lynnette Schiftan QC appointed to County Court bench
1987	Mary Gaudron first woman appointed to High Court of Australia, retired 2003
1992	Jan Wade appointed first (Victorian) woman Attorney General
1993	Women Barristers Association (Victoria) formed Rachelle Lewitan QC first Women Barristers Association (WBA) convenor Rosemary Balmford appointed to County Court bench
1994	Susan Crennan QC first woman chairman of the Victorian Bar Council
1995	Equal Opportunity Act 1995 Launch of Women Barristers' Association Constitution
1996	Rosemary Balmford appointed first woman judge to Supreme Court Victoria
1997	Launch of Australian Women Lawyers by Justice Mary Gaudron. Read Justice Gaudron's speech here.
1998	Victorian Bar Council commissions Rosemary Hunter and Helen McKelvie’s Equality of Opportunity for Women at the Victorian Bar, a landmark report on systemic discrimination at the Bar. Victorian Bar Council establishes a working party to develop response to Report and Model briefing policy Download the report HERE. Warning! This is a very large file (50MBytes). Please right click on the link and choose "Save target as.." (Windows Explorer) or "Save link as.." (Firefox) and save the document to your computer.
2000	Victorian Attorney General Rob Hulls endorses model briefing policy as government policy Opening of Joan Rosanove chambers
2003	Pamela Tate SC made first woman Solicitor General (Victoria) Marilyn Warren first woman Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Victoria Tenth year anniversary of Women Barristers Association Victorian Bar endorses National Equality of Opportunity briefing policy
2005	Sue Crennan QC second female High Court judge
2006	10th anniversary of the appointment of the first woman to the Supreme Court, Justice Rosemary Balmford Inaugural national Australian Women Lawyers (AWL) conference in Sydney
2007	Tenth year anniversary of AWL
	* Source: Women Barristers Association