• Thirty seventh Governor of New South Wales.

• First woman to be appointed Governor of New South Wales.

• Bachelor degrees in medicine and surgery in 1956 from the University of Sydney.

• Taught at the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, increasingly working with children's services psychiatry and mental health services, and indigenous health programs.

• Held the positions of Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney, Area Director of Mental Health Services Central Sydney and Senior Consultant to the Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern and to the Aboriginal Medical Service, Kempsie.

• Widespread involvements and interests have included juvenile justice, research on adolescent depression, health issues in developing countries, education for health professionals and telemedicine and new technologies for health service delivery.

• She was, at the time of her appointment as Governor, a member of societies such as Amnesty International, the National Trust, the NSW Camellia Research Society and the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Centre, as well as being a patron of the Sydney Symphony and Opera Australia.

• Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1988 for her services to child and adolescent health.

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

• 1971 - Present Fellow Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
• 1983 - 1992 Chairman, Council of The Women’s College, University of Sydney
• 1990 - 1992 Member, NSW Women’s Advisory Council
• 1991 - 1999 Chairman, NSW Juvenile Justice Advisory Council
• 1992 - 1995 Chairman, Metropolitan South West Region Customer Service Council, NSW Police Service
• 1993 - Present Member of the Faculty of Community Child Health of the Royal Australian College of Physicians
• 1993 - 2001 Member, Steering Committee, NSW Transcultural Mental Health Unit
• 1994 - 1997 Member of the National Health and Medical Research Council Working Party on Depression in Young People
• 1994 - 2000 Member, Committee for Examinations, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
• 1994 - 2000 Part-time Psychiatrist Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal
• 1994 - 1997 Co-chair, NSW Strategy for Aboriginal Mental Health (NSW Health Department Working Group)
• 1994 - 1998 Board Member, NSW Institute of Psychiatry
• 1995 - 2001 Member, Telemedicine Steering Committee, (NSW Department of Health)
• 1995 - 1999 Chairman, Australian Health and Development (Third World Health) Group
• 1996 - 2000 Chairman, NSW Task Force on Children and Young People’s Mental Health, NSW Health
• 1997 - 2001 Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern Chairman, Review of Arndell Child & Adolescent Service, Northern Sydney Area Health Service Chairman, Non English Speaking Background Suicide Prevention Project.
• Chairman, NSW Implementation Group on Mental Health

AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

• 1971 Mother of the Year
• 1988 Officer of the Order of Australia A.O. For services to child and adolescent health, especially mental health
• 2001 Companion of the Order of Australia A.C.