Margaret Jean Nyland was born on November 1942 and is an Australian lawyer, who was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 1993 to 2012, and before that a judge of the District Court of South Australia from 1987 to 1993.
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Margaret Nyland's mother was an egg wiper, later becoming a tent, sail and flag maker.
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Margaret Nyland's father, John Johnson Nyland was a boilermaker then taxi driver, later becoming the State Secretary of the Transport Workers Union.
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Margaret Nyland had determined her choice of career at a young age, writing "lawyer" on each occasion the school asked to list her intended occupation.
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Margaret Nyland received a Commonwealth Scholarship which enabled her to study law at the University of Adelaide, where one of her lecturers was Roma Mitchell.
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Margaret Nyland graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1965 and was one of three women admitted as legal practitioners in 1965.
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In 1987 Margaret Nyland became only the second woman to be appointed to the District Court of South Australia.
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Mitchell retired as Dame Roma in 1983, and it took a further ten years before the second woman, Margaret Nyland, was appointed to the Supreme Court.
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Margaret Nyland retired from the Supreme Court in November 2012 as a result of reaching the statutory retirement age of 70.
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Margaret Nyland was made a Member of the Order of Australia "For service to the judiciary, to human rights and the equal status of women, and to the community through a range of cultural organisations" on 26 January 2005.