Monarch Queen Elizabeth II Name Kate Warner First appearance 24 (season 2) Nationality Australian Significant others Jack Bauer | Preceded by Peter Underwood Played by Sarah Wynter Lieutenant Alan Blow Role Fictional Character Last appearance 24 (season 3) | |
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Full Name Catherine Ann Friend Born 14 July 1948 (age 75)
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ( 1948-07-14 ) Spouse(s) Richard Warner (m. 1971) Education Bachelor of Laws (Honours), Master of Laws Similar Michelle Dessler, Teri Bauer, Mike Novick, Nina Myers, Chase Edmunds | ||
Catherine Ann "Kate" Warner (born 14 July 1948) is an Australian lawyer, legal academic, and the current Governor of Tasmania.
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Early life and education
Professor Kate Warner was born in Hobart, and attended St Michael's Collegiate School and the University of Tasmania, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours on 15 April 1970, and with a Master of Laws by research thesis on 7 December 1978. Her LLM thesis focussed on "Presentence Psychiatric Reports in Tasmania".
Legal and academic career
After graduation, she worked as Associate to (then) Chief Justice of Tasmania Sir Stanley Burbury at the Supreme Court of Tasmania and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in 1971. Following completion of her LLM thesis in 1978, she commenced her lengthy career as an academic at the University of Tasmania Law School. She was promoted to Lecturer in 1981, to Senior Lecturer in 1989, Associate Professor in 1993, and Professor in 1996.
In 1992, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law and later was appointed Head of the School of Law (the first woman to hold these positions at the University of Tasmania). She was promoted to Professor in 1996 and in 2002 was appointed as foundation Director of the Tasmania Law Reform Institute.
She was awarded the Allen Austin Bartholomew Award for the best article in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology in each year from 2004 to 2007.
She is an internationally recognised expert in the fields of criminal law, criminology and sentencing and has taught, researched and published in these areas for more than 30 years.
Governor of Tasmania
On 10 November 2014, the Premier of Tasmania, Will Hodgman, announced that Professor Warner would be appointed as the 28th Governor of Tasmania, after the death in office of Peter Underwood. She was sworn in on 10 December 2014.