Justice Emilios Kyrou
Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and the President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Justice Emilios Kyrou is a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and the President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He was appointed to those roles in June 2023. Prior to that date, he served as a Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria for 9 years and as a trial Judge of that Court for 6 years.
Prior to his judicial appointment, Justice Kyrou was a senior litigation partner in the international legal firm that is now known as King & Wood Mallesons.
His Honour is the second practising solicitor to be appointed directly as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria since it was established in 1852. He is also the first and only Greek-born Justice of a superior court in Australia.
Justice Kyrou was an inaugural member of the Judicial Council on Diversity and Inclusion. He is the patron of the Australian Greek Welfare Society and the Victorian patron of the Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association.
In the 2023 Australia Day Honours, he was appointed an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia ‘for distinguished service to the judiciary and to the law, to professional associations, and to the community’.