Catherine Ann "Kate" Warner Department of Administration and Management is an Australian lawyer, legal academic, and the current.
Background
Professor Kate Warner was born in Hobart, and attended Street Michael"s Collegiate School and the University of Tasmania, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours on 15 April 1970, and with a Master of Laws by research thesis on 7 December 1978.
Education
Her Master of Laws thesis focussed on "Presentence Psychiatric Reports in Tasmania". Following completion of her Master of Laws thesis in 1978, she commenced her lengthy career as an academic at the University of Tasmania Law School.
Career
She was promoted to Lecturer in 1981, to Senior Lecturer in 1989, Associate Professor in 1993, and Professor in 1996. In 1992, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law and later was appointed Head of the School of Law (the first woman to hold these positions at the University of Tasmania). She was promoted to Professor in 1996 and in 2002 was appointed as foundation Director of the Tasmania Law Reform Institute.
She was awarded the Allen Austin Bartholomew Award for the best article in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology in each year from 2004 to 2007.
She is an internationally recognised expert in the fields of criminal law, criminology and sentencing and has taught, researched and published in these areas for more than 30 years. On 10 November 2014, the Premier of Tasmania, Will Hodgman, announced that Professor Warner would be appointed as the 28th, after the death in office of Peter Underwood.
She was sworn in on 10 December 2014. Honours = Appointments.