Preceded by Jennifer Gardiner Name Trevor Khan | Role Legislator | |
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Political party National Party of Australia Residence Tamworth, New South Wales Party National Party of Australia | ||
Trevor John Khan, an Australian politician, is a The Nationals member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and serves as Deputy President and Chair of Committees. Khan has been a member of the Council since 24 March 2007.
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Background and really career
Khan attended Illawarra Grammar School in Wollongong from 1962 to 1975. While attending school, his teachers were able to identify that he had dyslexia. Khan was put through a special reading program at that school and was able to leave school with a Higher School Certificate in 1975.
After school, he was employed as a Personnel Officer and was also an Industrial Relations Officer for Australian Paper Manufacturers. He attended the University of New South Wales and completed a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws from that university. He was subsequently admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1985.
Khan moved to Tamworth in 1985, where he practised as a lawyer with principally criminal and family law practice areas. Having become an Accredited Special Advocate, Khan was well known on the court circuit of north-western New South Wales. He became a partner in Egan Murphy solicitors 1990, a role he retained until his election to Parliament. As a lawyer, he was a member of the Family Issues Committee of the New South Wales Law Society.
Political career
In 2004, he unsuccessfully stood as the Nationals candidate in the regional NSW seat of New England in the Australian federal election.
Khan was number eight on the joint Liberal/National election ticket for the 2007 New South Wales state election, and having been elected to the Legislative Council, he commenced his first as a Member of NSW Parliament in March 2007 He was last of the twenty one members to be elected at that election.
He has held several roles on Parliamentary Committees, including being the Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Social Issues, Chair of the Legislative Council's Privileges Committee, Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral matters, and has sat on several General Purpose Standing Committees.
Khan was reelected to the Parliament of NSW at the 2015 NSW state election, and now holds the office of Deputy President and Chair of Committees of the Legislative Council, deputising for the Presiding Officer of the Parliament of NSW, and Chairing the 'Committee of the Whole' process in the Legislative Council chamber.
Personal life
He is married to Elizabeth (Libby) and has two children.