Senior Executive

Monique Hitter – Chief Executive Officer (Band 3)

BSW, Dip Law

• Budget total: $559.9M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent)*: 1,642.01
• Total actual staff: 1,772

Our CEO is responsible for the whole organisation’s budget and staff, and her listed totals reflect this.

Alexandra Colquhoun – Executive Director, Family Law (Band 2)

BA, LLB, MA, LLM (Hons), Accredited Specialist Family Law

• Budget total: $106.8M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 280.41
• Total actual: 299

Jane Cipants – Executive Director, Client Service (Band 2)

BSW, M Social Policy, EMPA

• Budget total: $13.7M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 149.93
• Total actual: 177

Meredith Osborne – Executive Director, Civil Law (Band 2)

BA (Hons), LLB

• Budget total: $45.2M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 230.83
• Total actual: 244

Robert Hoyles – Executive Director, Criminal Law (Band 2)

EMPA, LLB (Hons), BA, Accredited Specialist Criminal Law

• Budget total: $175.4M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 327.67
• Total actual: 339

Trent Wilson – Executive Director, Digital Transformation (Band 2)

B Comm, MBA

• Budget total: $3.2M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 8
• Total actual: 8

Anna Baltins – Director, Domestic and Family Violence (Band 1)

BA (Government and Public Administration and Sociology), LLB, Master of Applied Law (Family Law)

This role shares management of the budget and staff of the Domestic Violence Unit overseen by the Executive Director, Family Law.

Brett Goodridge – Deputy Director, Human Resources (Band 1)

Graduate Diploma Employment Relations

This role shares management of the budget and staff overseen by the Director, Human Resources.

Cherie Pittman – Director, Legal Service & In-house Counsel (Band 1)

BA (Hons), Grad Dip, InfM LLB (Hons)

• Budget total: $141.0M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 424.16
• Total actual: 473

Jackie Finlay Deputy Director, Civil Law (Band 1)

BA, LLB

This role shares management of the budget and staff overseen by the Executive Director, Civil Law.

Jocelyn Flanagan – Director, Grants (Band 1)

BA, LLB

• Budget total: $8.4M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 71.6
• Total actual: 76

Katie Kelso – Deputy Director, Family Law (Band 1)

B Comm, LLB

This role shares management of the budget and staff overseen by the Executive Director, Family Law.

Kimberley Hamer – Director, Aboriginal Services (Band 1)

BA, LLB

• Budget total: $3.1M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 18.7
• Total actual: 23

Koshala Nishaharan – Director, Enterprise Project Management (Band 1)

BBS, MBA

• Budget total: $1.6M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 3
• Total actual: 3

Melissa Burgess – Deputy Director, Criminal Law (Band 1)

BA, LLB

This role shares management of the budget and staff overseen by the Executive Director, Criminal Law.

Michael Brodie - Director, Finance (Band 1)

B Ec, CA, GAICD

• Budget total: $559.9M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 24
• Total actual: 24

Our Director, Finance has responsibility for the budget for the whole organisation, and his listed budget total reflects this.

Michelle Jones – Director, Human Resources (Band 1)

Dip Community Organisations, BA Community Management, Grad Cert Adult Ed (Community), M Public Administration

• Budget total: $6.2M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 42.71
• Total actual: 44

Wayne Gale – Director, Information and Communications Technology (Band 1)

BA (Computing) M Comm (Accounting)

• Budget total: $21.0M
• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 50.6
• Total actual: 51

Jasmine Stanton – Director, Defence and Veterans Legal Service (Band 1)

BA, LLB (Hons), LLM, Accredited Specialist Children’s Law

• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 5
• Total actual: 5

Katherine McKernan – Executive Director, National Legal Aid (Band 1)

BA (Hons), MA (Policy Studies)

• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 2
• Total actual: 2

Susannah O'Reilly – Director, Disability Royal Commission Legal Service (Band 1)

BA, LLB (Hons), Dip Mgt, EMPA

• Total staff (full-time equivalent): 0
• Total actual: 0