Meet the NSW Sentencing Council

The Hon Peter McClellan AM, KC

Retired judicial officer and Chairperson

• Chief Commissioner,  Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, 2013-2017
• Judge of Appeal, NSW Court of Appeal, 2013-2018
• Chief Judge at Common Law, NSW Supreme Court, 2005-2013
• Chief Judge, NSW Land and Environment Court, 2003-2005
• Judge, Supreme Court of NSW, 2001-2003
• Judge, District Court of NSW, 1998-2001.

​​Assistant Commissioner Scott Cook APM

Member with expertise or experience in law enforcement

• Commander - State Intelligence Command, since 2022
  
• Commander - Police Prosecutions and Licensing Enforcement Command, 2019-2022
• Board Member (Alternate Director)  - Crime Stoppers NSW.

Sally Dowling SC

Member with expertise or experience in criminal law or sentencing - prosecution

• Director of Public Prosecutions, since 2021
  
• Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor, 2016-2020
  
• Crown Prosecutor, 2002-2016
  
• Barrister, since 1997.

Belinda Rigg SC

Member with expertise or experience in criminal law or sentencing - defence

• NSW Senior Public Defender, since 2019
• Public Defender, since 2004
• Barrister, since 1997.

Christina Choi

Member with expertise or experience in criminal law or sentencing

• Assistant Director, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, since 2019
  
• Federal Prosecutor, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, since 2007.

Felicity Graham

Member with expertise or experience in criminal law or sentencing

• Barrister at Black Chambers
• Solicitor, Aboriginal Legal Service, 2009-2015.

Peter Severin

Member with expertise or experience in corrective services

• Commissioner, Corrective Services NSW, since 2012
• Chief Executive, South Australian Department for Correctional Services, 2003-2012.

Wayne Gleeson

Member with expertise or experience in juvenile justice

• Deputy Principal, Woolooware High School (retired 2016)
• Founding member, Legal Studies Association of NSW Inc.

Thea Deakin-Greenwood

Community member – experience in matters associated with victims of crime

• Senior lawyer with Knowmore Legal Service (specialist legal service for survivors, families and other people affected by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse)
• Solicitor, Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre, 2008-2014.

Kerrie Thompson

Community member – experience in matters associated with victims of crime

• Chief Executive Officer, Victim Support Unit, Victims of Crime Assistance League (VOCAL) (NSW)
  
• Formerly a musician in the Australian Army.

Timothy Keady

Retired Magistrate

Professor John Anderson

Member with relevant academic or research expertise or experience

• Professor of Law, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle.
  
• Deputy Head of Faculty, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Newcastle 2019. 
• Author – Criminal Law Perspectives: From Principles to Practice (2020); Uniform Evidence in Australia (2015, 2018, 2020); Uniform Evidence Law: Text and Essential Cases (2016, 2021); Criminal Law Guidebook (2016).

Mark Follett

Representative of the Department of Communities and Justice

• Executive Director of Policy, Reform and Legislation Branch, Department of Communities and Justice, since 2020
  
• Director Crime Policy, Department of Justice, 2018-2019
  
• Prior to that, various law and legal policy roles in the NSW and Victorian public service.

Craig Hughes-Cashmore

Community member

• Co-founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Survivors & Mates Support Network (SAMSN).
• Community Member on the NSW Victims Advisory Board.
• Member of the National Memorial Advisory Group, the Expert Advisory Group for the Prevention and Response to Violence, Abuse and Neglect (NSW Health) and the Suicide Prevention Australia’s Lived Experience Panel.