CHAIRPERSON
 
The Hon James Wood AO QC
Mr Wood, who commenced his term as chairperson in January 2006, was Chief Judge at Common Law, 1998-2005, having been appointed a Supreme Court Judge in 1984. He was also Commissioner of the Royal Commission into Police Corruption, 1994-1997 and previously a full-time Commissioner with the Law Reform Commission, 1982-1984. [More information about Mr Wood and previous Chairpersons...]
 
FULL-TIME COMMISSIONER
 
Emeritus Professor Hilary Astor
Professor Astor commenced as full-time Commissioner in March 2010. She was previously a part-time Commissioner from 1999-2006. Professor Astor joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney in 1986 and most recently held the position of Professor of Dispute Resolution. Her areas of interest are dispute resolution, especially mediation, and family law. She is the co-author, with Professor Christine Chinkin, of Dispute Resolution in Australia (2nd edition, Butterworths, Sydney, 2002). She was the inaugural Chairperson of the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council and is presently a member of the Council of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration.
 
PART-TIME COMMISSIONERS
 
Mr Tim Game SC
Mr Game was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1985 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 1996. He is a member of the NSW Bar Association's Criminal Law Committee. He is also a member of the Law Council of Australia's Anti-Money Laundering Working Group and Co-chair of the National Criminal Law Liaison Committee.

Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty
Professor Goodman-Delahunty, who was appointed to the Commission in May 2002, is a professor in the Australian Graduate School of Policing at the Charles Sturt University. She was previously Director of the Forensic Psychology Postgraduate Program at the University of New South Wales (2001-2009) and is also editor of Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, a Member of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal Community Services Division, and a Mediator for the NSW Office of Fair Trading Mediation Services Unit.

The Hon Roderick Howie QC
Justice Howie was appointed to the Commission in April 2010. He has been a Judge of the Supreme Court since 2000. Previously he held the following positions: Director of the Criminal Law Review Division of the Attorney General's Department, 1984-1987; Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions 1987-1993; Crown Advocate, 1993-1996 and District Court Judge 1996-2000. He has co-authored Butterworth's Criminal Practice and Procedure in New South Wales and has been a major contributor to the section of Halsbury's Laws of Australia on Sentencing and Criminal Procedure.

The Hon Gregory James QC
Mr James is currently the President of the Mental Health Review tribunal. A retired Supreme Court Judge and former leading criminal barrister, he was appointed to the Commission in January 1999, having previously been a part-time Commissioner in 1985-1989.

His Honour Judge Peter Johnstone
Judge Johnstone was appointed to the District Court in 2006.

His Honour Judge Kevin O'Connor AM
Judge O'Connor, who was appointed to the Commission in March 2008, has been President of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of New South Wales since 1998 and a District Court Judge since 1998. He was previously Chair of the Fair Trading Tribunal, 1999-2001, of the Commercial Tribunal, 1997-1999, and of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), 1997-1998. He was also Federal Privacy Commissioner, 1989-1996.

The Hon Hal Sperling QC
Mr Sperling, was a Judge of the Supreme Court, 1995-2004. He was previously a part-time Commissioner from 1981-1996 and a Deputy Chairperson of the Commission in 1996.