Helen McLeod Wilson is an Australian judge. She has been a judge of the

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since November 2014. Wilson was born in

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and raised in the Swansea area. She was educated at Swansea High School before studying arts and law at the

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. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1989, and worked as a solicitor in the Criminal Division of the Legal Aid Commission of NSW from 1990 to 1992. She then went to work for the

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as senior solicitor from 1992 to 1995, managing lawyer at their Campbelltown regional office from 1995 to 1997 and finally as trial advocate. Wilson was admitted as a barrister in 1999, and was an acting Crown Prosecutor until being made permanent in the role in 2001. In one prominent case, she was the prosecutor in the 2008 child sex trial of former state minister

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. Wilson attained

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status in 2013. Wilson was appointed to the

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in April 2014, based in Newcastle. Five months later, in November 2014, she was elevated to the Supreme Court.

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