Dean Mildren
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Dean Mildren RFD QC (27 February 1943 - ) is a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. He was appointed to the Court on 27 June 1991.
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[edit] Education and pre-Northern Territory
Justice Mildren was born in Adelaide and attended the Norwood High School and the University of Adelaide. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts and from 1966 - 1968 was an Articled Clerk to James Henry Muirhead who was later to become a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.
Justice Mildren was a solicitor with Thomson & Co in Adelaide from 1968 - 1971.
[edit] Legal Work in the Northern Territory
Jusice Mildren relocated to the Northern Territory in 1972 and established the firm Mildren & Partners in which he practised as a barrister & solicitor.
Justice Mildren practised as a barrister from 1980 until his appointment to the bench in 1991. Justice Mildren was appointed as a Queen's Counsel in 1983 and was President of the Northern Territory Bar Association from 1987 -1991[1]having been Vice-President from 1989 - 1990.
Justice Mildren was President of the Northern Territory Law Society from 1979 - 1981 [2] and from 1973 - 1975. He was also Deputy Chairman of the Northern Territory Legal Practitioners Complaints Committee from 1983 - 1988, Chairman of the Northern Territory Planning Appeals Committee from 1979 - 1985, Chairman of the Northern Territory Council of Law Reporting from 1993 - 1995 and President of the Northern Territory Law Reform Committee from 1991 - 1997.
Justice Mildren was a Colonel in the Australian Army Legal Corps (Ares) from 1992 - 1996, after being a Lieutenant Colonel from 1980 - 1992. He was a Judge Advocate from 1986 - 1996 and was a Defence Force Magistrate from 1986 - 1991. Justice Mildren was also the Chief Legal Officer of the 7th Military District (Ares) from 1975 - 1986. Justice Mildren has been a Member of the Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal since 1996. [3]
[edit] Other interests
Justice Mildren lectures part-time at Charles Darwin University having been appointed as an Adjunct Professor of the University in 1997. He has been a Life Member of the Australian Centre of International Arbitration since 1986 and is a Patron of the Friends of the Territory Wildlife Park. He is also a Patron of the Dante Alighieri Society in Darwin and Vice-Patron of the Darwin Cricket Club.
