The Honourable Sir Albert Asher Wolff

Birth registered as Asher Albert
Chief Justice
Born
30 April 1899, Geraldton, Western Australia
Died
27 October 1977, Subiaco, Western Australia
Sex
Male
Father
Simon Wolff (jeweller)
Mother
Bertha Clara Shrimski
Married (1) Ida Violet Jackson (schoolteacher); (2) Mary Godwin

Legal admissions

Career

  • Crown prosecutor, WA 1926-29.
  • Crown Solicitor of WA 1929.
  • Judge, Supreme Court of WA 1938-59, Snr Puisne Judge 1954-59, Chief Justice 1959-69.
  • Lt-Governor of WA 1968-74.
  • KCMG 1959.

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