Jayne Jagot appointed to Australia’s high court, creating first majority-female bench
Jagot will be the seventh woman appointed to the court, replacing Patrick Keane once he reaches mandatory retirement age
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The majority of judges on Australia’s high court will be women for the first time in history after the appointment of justice Jayne Jagot to the bench.
On Thursday the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, announced the appointment of the federal court judge as the 56th justice of the high court and seventh woman appointed to the court.
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