Rowena Orr

Rowena Jane Orr (born 1973) is an Australian jurist who has served as a judge in the Court of Appeal of Victoria since 18 April 2024. From 2021 to 2024, Orr served as Solicitor-General of Victoria, and is best known for her role during the 2017–2019 Banking Royal Commission, where her performance assisting the commissioner gained her the moniker "shock and Orr".

Orr was born in 1973 in Sydney. She studied law and economics at the University of Queensland, graduating in 1996 with honours. Over the following years she worked as a judge's associate to Michael McHugh and John Murtagh Macrossan, then as a solicitor at the Director of Public Prosecutions, before leaving Australia for England where she studied at St John's College, Cambridge,

As of 2018, Orr lived in the Melbourne suburb of Clifton Hill with her husband, also a barrister, and their two children.