CHAIRPERSON
 
The Hon James Wood AO QC
Justice 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 Justice Wood and previous Chairpersons...]
 
FULL-TIME COMMISSIONER
 
Professor Michael Tilbury
Professor Tilbury was appointed full-time Commissioner from 1 July 2002. He was previously full-time Commissioner from 1994-1996 and a part-time Commissioner from 1996-2000. His most recent appointment has been as the Inaugural Director of the Centre for Commercial Law in the University of Zimbabwe (March 2000). His other appointments have included Edward Jenks Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, Head of the Law School at the University of New South Wales and Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania.

PART-TIME COMMISSIONERS
 
Associate Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty
Associate Professor Goodman-Delahunty, who is Director of the Forensic Psychology Postgraduate Program at the University of New South Wales and editor of Psychology, Public Policy, & Law was appointed to the Commission in May 2002.

The Hon Justice David Hodgson AO
Justice Hodgson, who is currently a member of the Court of Appeal, was appointed a part-time Commissioner in January 1994. He has been a Judge of the Supreme Court since 1983 and was Chief Judge in Equity in 1997-2001.

The Hon David Hunt AO QC
Mr Hunt was appointed to the Commission in 2008, having previously been a Commissioner in 1992-1999. He was a Judge of the NSW Supreme Court from 1979, and Chief Judge of the Common Law Division, 1991-1998. He was a Judge of UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from 1998, Presiding Judge of its Trial Chamber II, 2000-2001 and Judge of the Appeals Chambers of the Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunals, 2001-2003. In 2004, he was Royal Commissioner for the Inquiry into the Centenary House Lease and an Acting Judge of Appeal for the NSW Supreme Court, 2005-2007.

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 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.

His Honour Judge Kenneth Taylor AM RFD
Judge Taylor, who was appointed to the Commission in April 2008, has been a Judge of the District Court of NSW since 1991. He was appointed the NSW Privacy Commissioner in 2008.