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Frances Jean Eivers is a New Zealand District Court judge; she is Māori and is a member of the Ngāti Maniapoto
iwi Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, an ...
. In October 2021 she was appointed
Children's Commissioner for New Zealand The Office of the Children's Commissioner (OCC; mi, Manaakitia A Tatou Tamariki) is an independent New Zealand Crown entity that was established under the Children's Commissioner Act 2003. Its main responsibilities are to protect the rights, heal ...
.


Biography

Eivers was born and brought up in
Te Teko Te Teko is a small inland town along the banks of the Rangitaiki River in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. The township includes a racecourse, golf course, police station, and a primary school. The primary school was estab ...
in the eastern Bay of Plenty. She began her legal career in 1985, when she was admitted to the bar in the
Auckland High Court The Auckland High Court, also known as the Tāmaki Makaurau High Court, is a Gothic Revival courthouse in the Auckland city centre, New Zealand. The Court is one of three locations used by the High Court of New Zealand across New Zealand. It ...
. She has worked as a solicitor both in England and New Zealand, specialising in family law. In November 2000 she was appointed Counsel for the Child and in 2004 was appointed a Youth Advocate. Eivers was appointed a District Court judge with a Family Court warrant in 2009. She was sworn in as a judge at a ceremony held at her home marae, Te Teko's Kokohinau Marae. In addition, she has presided over Rangatahi Courts, which hear cases involving young Māori people. Eivers was a founding member of Te Huinga Roia (Māori Law Society) and serves as a mentor to law students at the University of Auckland Law School.


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