Justice Peter McClellan AM, Chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Justice Peter McClellan AM is a Judge of Appeal in New
South
Wales. Prior to this, Justice McClellan was the Chief Judge at Common
Law of
the Supreme Court of New South Wales, having been appointed to that
position in
2005. Before that appointment, he held judicial and other appointments
including Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Chief Judge of
the
Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, Chairman of the Sydney
Water
Inquiry and Assistant Commissioner at the Independent Commission Against
Corruption. Justice McClellan was admitted to practice law in 1974 and
appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1985. Justice McClellan became a Member of
the
Order of Australia (AM) in 2011 for services to the judiciary through
the
Supreme Court of NSW, to environmental law, and to legal education.
