Dr Juliet Behrens is the second person from the ACT Bar to be appointed to the post recently
Dr Juliet Behrens, who was honorary secretary on the ACT Bar Council, has joined the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, Division 1 as a justice.
According to the ACT Bar Association, she is the second person from the ACT Bar to be appointed to Division 1’s Sydney registry in recent years, after Rebecca Curran. Behrens commenced in her new role today.
Behrens has focused on family law throughout her legal career, having taught family law at the Australian National University and having worked with family law boutique Dobinson Davey Clifford Simpson as a solicitor from 2009 to 2016.
She became part of the ACT Bar in 2017, and was a mediator concentrating on family law. She is also on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Family Law.
In addition to serving as honorary secretary of the Bar Council, she was Australian Women Lawyers secretary, Women Lawyers Association of the ACT president, and Women Barristers Committee of the Bar chair.
