1. Dianne Virginia Judge was born on 19 August 1956 and is a former Australian politician, who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Strathfield for the Labor Party from 2003 until 2011.
16 Facts About Virginia Judge
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Virginia Judge later returned to Canberra for her secondary schooling.
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From an early age Virginia Judge was an aspiring coloratura soprano, and won many awards in the Australian National Eisteddfod in Canberra.
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Virginia Judge obtained distinctions at 6th grade with the NSW Music Examinations Advisory Board in each of Speech and Drama, Pianoforte and Music Theory.
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Virginia Judge received a Bachelor of Education from the Canberra College of Advanced Education and the Canberra School of Music.
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Virginia Judge taught in primary and secondary schools in both Sydney and Canberra.
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Virginia Judge worked as a volunteer abroad for the Overseas Service Bureau in Tonga and as a project officer for small non-government organisation, The Australian Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific, now known as Action on Poverty, delivering items such as humidicribs, toilets and ovens to Pacific islands such as Nauru, the Solomon Islands and Fiji.
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Virginia Judge was elected to Strathfield Municipal Council in 1995, and was reelected with overwhelming community support, enabling her to serve as Mayor of Strathfield from 2000 to 2003, the first woman from the Australian Labor Party in this role.
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On 23 March 2003 Virginia Judge was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales as the first woman to represent the NSW seat of Strathfield.
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Virginia Judge held these portfolios until the ALP lost office at the 2011 election.
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In July 2011, Virginia Judge became head of strategic partnerships at the Children's Medical Research Institute an independent medical research institute which commenced operations in 1958 as part of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Camperdown, Sydney.
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Virginia Judge left CMRI in late 2018 and then took up the position of business development manager at the Heart Research Institute in Newtown, Sydney.
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In 2013, Virginia Judge became a board member of the Riverside Theatres Parramatta and board member of Gallery 49 Marrickville.
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Virginia Judge had been a long time Vanguard member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Dance Company since 2011.
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Virginia Judge is actively involved in the activities of the Australian Museum where she was appointed a trustee and director of the Australian Museum Foundation in October 2016, and with the Royal Society of New South Wales, where she was elected a Fellow in July 2017.
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Virginia Judge was shortly afterwards elected to the Council of the RSN.