Rod Blackmore is perhaps best known for his work with children and adolescents.
16 Facts About Rod Blackmore
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Rod Blackmore came from a legal family; both his father, Cecil Hargreaves Blackmore, and paternal grandfather, Hugh Moffitt Blackmore, had served as New South Wales magistrates.
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Cecil Rod Blackmore was appointed as clerk of the court in Grafton from 1937 to 1943, after which the family moved to Haberfield in Sydney.
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On 12 April 1958, Rod Blackmore married Elizabeth Anne James at Summer Hill Methodist Church, Sydney, where they had met due to Rod Blackmore's playing organ for a number of local Sydney churches.
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Rodney Blackmore gained a Diploma in Law through the Solicitors Admission Board in 1967 and worked in courts administration from 1951.
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Rod Blackmore was Clerk of Petty Sessions in Camden, Clerk of Petty Sessions and Coroner in Armidale, instructing officer at Central Criminal Court, Clerk of Petty Sessions and chamber magistrate at Campsie, Clerk of Petty Sessions and assistant chamber magistrate at the Central Court of Petty Sessions in Darlinghurst Sydney and then chamber magistrate in Sydney.
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Rod Blackmore was commissioned as a Stipendiary Magistrate in 1970.
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The office of Senior Special Magistrate was created and Senior Children's Magistrate Rod Blackmore took up that position on 8 August 1978.
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Rod Blackmore was a founding member of the Homeless Children's Association [2] in 1980 and its president from 1984 to 1991.
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In 1988, Rod Blackmore became the first Senior Children's Court Magistrate of NSW, a position he filled with distinction until his 1995 retirement thirteen years later.
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Rod Blackmore later performed his duties at Bidura Children's Court in Glebe.
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Rod Blackmore was featured presiding on the bench at Bidura in the Film Australia documentary Kids in Trouble directed by Sue Cornwell.
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Rod Blackmore was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 1997 for his service to the welfare of children through the judicial system and to the community.
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Rod Blackmore is the longest continuous member of the Theatre Organ Society of Australia, having joined its NSW Division in March 1960.
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Rod Blackmore edited its journal The Diaphone from 1963 until its cessation in 1969.
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Rod Blackmore is a former president and Activities Director of the Probus Club of Hornsby, New South Wales.