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Federal Circuit Court judge appointed to Family Court
An FCC judge with “extensive” experience in family law matters has been appointed to the Family Court of Australia.
Natasha Taylor
Judge Paul Anthony Howard has been appointed as a judge of the Family Court of Australia. Having finalised more than 4,500 family law cases while appointed to the FCC, Judge Howard has extensive experience working through complex family law trials, including as a trial judge in the Brisbane pilot from 2018-19.
“On behalf of the Australian Government, I congratulate Judge Howard on his appointment and thank him for his willingness to continue to serve the people of Australia as a judge of the Family Court of Australia,” said senator the Honourable Michaelia Cash.
Graduating with a bachelor of laws from the Queensland Institute of Technology in 1986, Judge Howard was appointed to the FCC in 2007 where he predominantly heard family law matters.
Judge Howard has published extensively on Australia’s family law system and lectured extensively on his research, domestically and internationally. In 2018, Judge Howard completed the Fulbright scholarship as a visiting foreign judicial fellow at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC.
