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Mary Finlay Geoghegan

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Nominated by
  
Government of Ireland

Nationality
  
Irish

Spouse
  
Hugh Geoghegan

Appointed by
  
Michael D. Higgins

Occupation
  
Barrister


Alma mater
  
University College Dublin, College of Europe, Law Society of Ireland

Education
  
University College Dublin, College of Europe

Mary Finlay Geoghegan is a judge of the Irish Court of Appeal since 2014. Prior to her appointment, she was a judge of the Irish High Court from 2002.

She was educated at University College Dublin, the College of Europe, Bruges, and the Law Society of Ireland. She was admitted as a Solicitor in 1973, called to the Bar in 1980 and became a Senior Counsel in 1988. In the High Court, she was assigned to the Commercial list since 2004. She was in charge of the Examiners Court list and the Hague Convention on Child Abduction list.

She is a member of a legal family: her father, Thomas Finlay was Chief Justice of Ireland. Her grandfather Thomas Finlay and uncle William Finlay (1921–2010), Governor of the Bank of Ireland were both Senior Counsels as is her brother John Finlay. Her uncle John Blayney was a judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland. She married Hugh Geoghegan, a judge of the High Court and the Supreme Court, who was himself the son of a Supreme Court judge James Geoghegan.

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Mary Finlay Geoghegan Wikipedia