Ros Croucher

Rosalind Frances Croucher (born 14 November 1954 ) is an Australian lawyer and academic who was the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission from July 2017 to July 2024. She was previously President of the Australian Law Reform Commission from December 2009 until July 2017, having served as a full-time commissioner since 2007.

Education Croucher graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney and completed her Doctor of Philosophy in legal history at the University of New South Wales. She was admitted as a legal practitioner in New South Wales in 1981.

In March 2018, Croucher wrote a report recommending that compensation be awarded to a man because he was refused employment by banking and insurance company Suncorp Group. The man had previously been convicted and sentenced to 12 months' jail in 2008 for accessing child pornography via a "carriage service" and for possession of child pornography, and did not disclose the convictions to the company in his initial online application.

Honours Croucher was honoured as a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2007. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Andrew's College of the University of Sydney in 2002, an Honorary Fellow of the Australian College of Legal Medicine in 2004, and an Honorary Life Member of the Women Lawyers' Association of New South Wales in 2013. Her father, Frank McGrath, was a judge, and her maternal grandfather, John Cumpston, was the first Director-General of Public Health of the Commonwealth Department of Health. She played the oboe and cor anglais in the Australian Youth Orchestra in 1974.