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After I finished my Law (Hons) and History (Hons) degree, I worked at the High Court for
a year with Justice McHugh. Throughout his years as a Judge, he hired many female
associates and believed very strongly in women’s careers in Law. I think his peers ribbed him
a bit: ‘Why do you take so many female associates?’ But he was unapologetic because he
said he was redressing the balance. From the moment I joined the Crown Solicitor’s Office
as a junior solicitor he’d say, ‘So when are you going to be the Crown Solicitor?’
I was ambitious, but when you’ve got somebody—a High Court judge—believing in you
and saying, ‘Well of course you’ll be the Crown Solicitor one day’, it’s a huge thing. It’s a vote
of confidence.
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Lea Armstrong
Photographer Felix Warmuth, 2018
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