The Honourable Sir Reginald Alfree Smithers

Reginald Smithers served as an additional Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory from 1964 - 1971.

Justice Smithers graduated from Melbourne University and was admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor in Victoria in 1924.

Justice Smithers was called to the Bar in 1929 and was appointed as a Queen's Counsel in 1951.

Justice Smithers served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Papua and New Guinea from 1962 - 1964 and as a Justice of the Australian Industrial Court from 1965 - 1986.

Justice Smithers was Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal from 1977 - 1980 and a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia from 1977 - 1986.

Justice Smithers was Chancellor of the La Trobe University from 1972 - 1980 and was made a Knight Bachelor in 1980.

Photo courtesy of Federal Court of Australia.