# List of magistrates of the Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory

Listed below are Magistrates of the Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory, as of June 2019, including Chief Magistrates, Magistrates and Special Magistrates.
Prior to 1949, the person holding the office of Police Magistrate at either Queanbeyan or Goulburn exercised the power of Magistrate in the Australian Capital Territory.
| Position | Name | Term begin | Term end | Term |
| Chief Magistrate | Charles Kilduff | 28 November 1974 | 14 March 1980 | 5 years, 107 days |
| Chief Magistrate | Clarence Hermes | 4 December 1980 | 29 February 1984 | 3 years, 87 days |
| Chief Magistrate | Ronald Cahill | 28 March 1985 | 17 November 2009 | 24 years, 234 days |
| Chief Magistrate | John Burns | 15 December 2009 | 29 July 2011 | 1 year, 226 days |
| Chief Magistrate | Lorraine Walker | 13 October 2011 | | 13 years, 62 days |
| Acting Chief Magistrate | Kevin Townley Dobson | 29 February 1984 | March 27, 1985 | 1 year, 27 days |
| Magistrate | Francis Keane | 30 November 1949 | 28 October 1966 | 16 years, 332 days |
| Magistrate | John Desmond Button | 14 May 1959 | 30 June 1962 | 3 years, 47 days |
| Magistrate | Clarence Hermes | 6 December 1963 | 23 April 1970 | 6 years, 138 days |
| Magistrate | Kevin Townley Dobson | 13 December 1963 | 28 February 1984 | 20 years, 77 days |
| Magistrate | Kevin Townley Dobson | 28 March 1985 | 28 April 1986 | 1 year, 31 days |
| Magistrate | Eric Sterndale Pearson | 19 October 1967 | 19 February 1976 | 8 years, 123 days |
| Magistrate | Warren Keith Nicholl | 28 May 1971 | 6 November 1977 | 6 years, 162 days |
| Magistrate | John Joseph Dainer | 10 May 1973 | 23 July 1993 | 20 years, 74 days |
| Magistrate | Charles Kilduff | 10 April 1974 | 27 November 1974 | 231 days |
| Magistrate | Ronald Cahill | 22 September 1977 | 27 March 1985 | 7 years, 186 days |
| Magistrate | Michael Anthony Somes | 13 January 1986 | 31 July 2007 | 21 years, 199 days |
| Magistrate | Michael Ward | 21 April 1986 | 30 June 1998 | 12 years, 70 days |
| Magistrate | Peter Geoffrey Dingwall | 26 April 1990 | 17 August 2016 | 26 years, 113 days |
| Magistrate | John Burns | 26 April 1990 | December 14, 2009 | 19 years, 232 days |
| Magistrate | Karen Fryar | 6 September 1993 | 8 March 2019 | 25 years, 183 days |
| Magistrate | Shane Madden | 19 December 1996 | 10 July 2009 | 12 years, 203 days |
| Magistrate | Beth Campbell | 5 August 1998 | 3 March 2023 | 26 years, 131 days |
| Magistrate | Maria Doogan | 5 August 1998 | 30 March 2012 | 13 years, 238 days |
| Magistrate | Grant Lalor | 1 February 2004 | 29 May 2012 | 8 years, 118 days |
| Magistrate | Lorraine Walker | 19 July 2010 | 12 October 2011 | 1 year, 85 days |
| Magistrate | David Mossop | 23 December 2011 | 21 May 2013 | 1 year, 149 days |
| Magistrate | Peter Morrison | 14 February 2012 | | 12 years, 304 days |
| Magistrate | Bernadette Boss | 11 June 2012 | | 12 years, 186 days |
| Magistrate | Robert Matthew Cook | 11 September 2013 | | 11 years, 94 days |
| Magistrate | Glenn Theakston | 30 May 2016 | | 8 years, 198 days |
| Magistrate | Louise Taylor | 10 August 2018 | | 6 years, 126 days |
| Magistrate | James Lawton | 6 May 2019 | | 5 years, 222 days |
| Magistrate | James Stewart | 6 May 2019 | | 5 years, 222 days |
| Special Magistrate | John Goodwin | 25 November 1930 | 6 September 1936 | 5 years, 286 days |
| Special Magistrate | Sir Robert Garran | 27 March 1942 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Arthur Percival | 28 November 1946 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Robert McKillop | 14 May 1947 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Francis Keane | 18 May 1947 | 29 November 1949 | 2 years, 195 days |
| Special Magistrate | Francis Keane | 28 October 1966 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Sidney Rhodes | 9 July 1947 | 6 October 1953 | 6 years, 89 days |
| Special Magistrate | Frank Clifton Green | 9 July 1947 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Frank Gordon Thorpe | 9 July 1947 | 23 December 1953 | 6 years, 167 days |
| Special Magistrate | Charles Francis Denton | 21 March 1957 | | |
| Special Magistrate | John Llanover Davies | 16 April 1957 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Geoffrey Sawer | 16 April 1957 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Edmond Monaghan Debenham | 9 August 1962 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Everard Roy Harvey | 20 September 1962 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Keith Stacey Edmonds | 5 April 1963 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Martin Sylvester Meagher | 23 April 1963 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Alexander John Paton | 24 August 1967 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Brian Frederick Lake Crommelin | 23 November 1967 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Rexton James Humby | 17 April 1968 | | |
| Special Magistrate | William Stilwell Flynn | 30 April 1968 | | |
| Special Magistrate | John Roderick Scarlett | 27 March 1969 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Charles Kingsley Ward | 27 March 1969 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Clement Lewis Fischer | 29 June 1970 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Thomas Francis Price | 26 August 1976 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Eric Sterndale Pearson | 26 August 1976 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Alan Eugene Hogan | 22 September 1977 | 5 June 1989 | 11 years, 256 days |
| Special Magistrate | Desmond O'Connor | 16 February 1978 | | |
| Special Magistrate | David Bruce Nichols | 19 October 1978 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Charles Kilduff | 27 March 1980 | 4 November 1981 | 1 year, 222 days |
| Special Magistrate | Anthony William Wynne | 9 July 1982 | | |
| Special Magistrate | James Joseph O'Neill | 27 January 1983 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Kevin Townley Dobson | 20 August 1986 | | |
| Special Magistrate | John Martin Murphy | 19 May 1988 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Marcus Kessell Bannister | 14 October 1988 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Alan Anthony Hardiman | 24 November 1988 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Douglas William Smith | 14 December 1989 | 1 July 1994 | 4 years, 199 days |
| Special Magistrate | John Joseph Dainer | 3 March 1994 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Christine Susan Harvey | 30 September 1994 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Elizabeth Marjorie Symons | 30 September 1994 | 30 September 2004 | 10 years, 0 days |
| Special Magistrate | Garry George Dellar | 30 September 1994 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Warren Keith Nicholl | 20 February 1996 | | |
| Special Magistrate | Michael Ward | 20 July 1998 | 30 August 1998 | 41 days |
| Special Magistrate | Michael Ward | 22 September 1998 | 30 October 1998 | 38 days |
| Special Magistrate | Michael Henry Peedom | 11 November 1998 | 10 November 2005 | 6 years, 364 days |
| Special Magistrate | Phillip Raymond Thompson | 12 September 2000 | 28 February 2006 | 5 years, 169 days |
| Special Magistrate | Ian Henry Pike | 29 September 2001 | 28 August 2002 | 364 days |
| Special Magistrate | Grant Lalor | 25 June 2002 | 13 December 2002 | 171 days |
| Special Magistrate | Kenneth Cush | 13 October 2008 | 30 June 2010 | 1 year, 260 days |
| Special Magistrate | Kenneth Cush | 3 June 2013 | 15 December 2018 | 5 years, 195 days |
| Special Magistrate | Bill Stefaniak | 17 November 2008 | 2 February 2009 | 77 days |
| Special Magistrate | Graeme Lunney | 16 May 2011 | 15 May 2014 | 2 years, 364 days |
| Special Magistrate | Christopher Chenoweth | 16 May 2011 | 15 May 2014 | 2 years, 364 days |
| Special Magistrate | Maria Doogan | 3 June 2013 | 6 May 2017 | 3 years, 337 days |
| Special Magistrate | Margaret Hunter | 21 May 2014 | | 10 years, 207 days |
| Special Magistrate | Dominic Mulligan | 21 May 2014 | 6 May 2017 | 2 years, 350 days |