Preceded by Dale Wilson | Website judithgraley.com.au Name Judith Graley | |
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Born 26 January 1957 (age 67)
Sunshine, Victoria ( 1957-01-26 ) | ||
Political party Australian Labor Party | ||
Judith Graley MP hosts Denese Bartlett Award recipients
Judith Ann Graley (born 26 January 1957) is an Australian politician.
Graley was born in Sunshine, Victoria, and graduated from Sunshine West High School in 1974. She attended La Trobe University from 1975 to 1978, receiving a BA (Hons), and went on to receive a Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne in 1979. In 1980 she returned to La Trobe University as a tutor in the Department of Politics, and the following year became a secondary teacher at Footscray.
Judith Graley served as a local government councillor for the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council from 1997 to 2003 and was its mayor from 2000–2001.
She was a tutor at the University of Melbourne from 1995 to 2000, and in 2002 became electorate officer to Labor MP Alistair Harkness; she worked for Tim Holding from 2004.
In 2006, Graley was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Narre Warren South, having defeated sitting member Dale Wilson for preselection. Graley had been supported by the Labor Right faction.