Fiona McLeod

Fiona Margaret McLeod SC (born 1964) is an Australian barrister practising at the Victorian Bar.

Early life and education McLeod's father was a psychiatrist, who presided over the department at the University of Auckland for seven years, until McLeod was 13 years old. Her mother was a biochemist, later a ceramic artist.

McLeod attended the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne, where she enjoyed participating in student theatre productions. She earned a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws there, and later Masters of Public and International Law.

She has represented the Commonwealth in major cases, including the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, Queensland Floods Commission and the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. At that election, she came closer to taking the seat off the Liberals than any Labor candidate had come before. She managed a swing of six percent to Labor, enough to make this longstanding blue-ribbon Liberal seat marginal against Labor for the first time.

On 15 January 2020, it was announced that McLeod would be one of the members of the National Co-design Group of the Indigenous voice to government.

Awards and honours In the 2013 Women in Law Awards, McLeod won Barrister of the Year, Mentor of the Year and the Lawyers Weekly Excellence Award. 2013 Advocate Award On 5 March 2014 McLeod was appointed to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. McLeod was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for "distinguished service to the law, and to the legal profession, at the national and international level, and to women lawyers."