Joseph Campbell (judge)

Campbell was educated at Tamworth High School. He attended the International Science School at Sydney University in January 1965 . As an undergraduate he studied at the University of Sydney, where he attained honours in Arts and Law.[1] While at university he was a member of St Andrew's College, University of Sydney.

Campbell began his legal career in 1974 at the firm of Allen, Allen & Hemsley. A year later he was admitted to the New South Wales Bar. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1988.[2]

On 26 October 2001, Campbell was sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal of that court in 2007.[2]

From 1983 to 1986, Campbell was the Challis Lecturer in Bankruptcy at the University of Sydney. He was a part-time Lecturer from 1974 to 1978. Since 2007, Campbell has also been a visiting fellow at Wolfson College.[2]

Campbell has served as a Member of the Legal Profession Admission Board since 2008, a member of the Anglo-Australasian Lawyers Association since 2007, Member and Deputy Chair of the Legal Qualifications Sub-Committee since 2006, a member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law since 2005, a member and Deputy Chair of the Examinations Sub-Committee from 2002 to 2006, Chairman of the Council of Law Reporting (NSW) in 2001 and a member from 1994 to 2001, and a member of the Professional Conduct Committee of the NSW Bar Association from 1994 to 1996.[2]

He retired from the Supreme Court in December 2012.[3] He was appointed as an adjunct professor at Sydney Law School in January 2013,[4] and became Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2013.[5]