Jun 9, 2026 – 4.28pmIn the early 1990s, while deciding what to wear for her first law firm job interview, future legal luminary and gender advocate Kate Richardson picked out one of the home-made suits she had sewn on her mother’s Janome. Luckily, a friend intervened.“I did not yet know that a pink suit with shoulder pads would mark me out as a bit regional,” Richardson said last week.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
From ‘slightly nervous nerd’ to NSW’s newest judge
Dubbo-born Kate Richardson, SC, has called out “lad culture” at the Bar in her first speech as a Supreme Court justice.
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