Roland Leckie
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2021) |
Roland John Leckie (30 December 1917 – 16 April 1990) was an Australian politician and judge.
He was born in Hawthorn to John Leckie and Hattie Martha Knight. He studied at Scotch College and at Melbourne University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Law. He served in the military from 1937 to 1942 and for the rest of World War II was a member of the Royal Australian Navy reserve. He was a solicitor from 1941 and a barrister from 1946. On 30 April 1949 he married Lesley Anne McCall, with whom he had two daughters. A vice-president of the Liberal and Country Party, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Evelyn in 1950, but was defeated in 1952. He was Crown Prosecutor from 1956 to 1965 and from 1965 served as a judge on the County Court. From 1970 to 1981 he was president of the Industrial Appeals Court of Victoria, and from 1978 to 1981 was president of the Market Court of Victoria. Leckie died in 1990.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Leckie, Roland John". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
- 1917 births
- 1990 deaths
- Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria
- Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
- 20th-century Australian politicians
- Judges of the County Court of Victoria
- 20th-century Australian judges
- Royal Australian Navy personnel of World War II
- University of Melbourne alumni
- People from Hawthorn, Victoria
- People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne
- Military personnel from Melbourne
- Politicians from Melbourne