Pat O'Shane Biography

Patricia June "Pat" O'Shane AM, (born 19 June 1941 in Mossman, Queensland), is an indigenous Australian of the Kunjandji clan of the Kuku Yalanji people. She was a teacher, barrister, public servant, jurist, Aboriginal activist, and was Australia's first Aboriginal magistrate, serving the Local Court in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia between 1986 until her retirement in 2013.