Sir Kenneth Sydney Jacobs KBE QC was an Australian judge who served as a Justice of the High Court of Australia.
13 Facts About Kenneth Jacobs
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Kenneth Jacobs was educated at Knox Grammar School, and later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1938.
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Kenneth Jacobs enlisted in Paddington in 1939, and remained in the service until 1948.
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Later that year, Kenneth Jacobs was admitted to the New South Wales Bar Association, where he practised as a barrister, and in 1958 he was made a Queen's Counsel.
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In 1960 Kenneth Jacobs was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
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In 1963, Kenneth Jacobs was selected to serve a three-year term in Cyprus as the neutral presiding judge of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus, which was to be established following attempts to establish a constitution.
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In 1966 Kenneth Jacobs was elevated to the Court of Appeal of New South Wales.
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From 1972, Kenneth Jacobs was President of the NSW Court of Appeal.
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Kenneth Jacobs was appointed to the bench of the High Court on 8 February 1974.
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Kenneth Jacobs was selected by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, and was thus the first High Court Justice to be appointed by a Labor government since William Webb in 1946.
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Kenneth Jacobs was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1976.
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Kenneth Jacobs retired from the High Court on 6 April 1979.
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On 19 July 1979, Kenneth Jacobs was granted life membership of the New South Wales Bar.